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Highland Park 18 Year Old Lunar Bottling

Highland Park 18 Year Old Lunar Bottling
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Lot number: 085-1191

Winning bid: £490

Highland Park remains the most northerly whisky distillery in Scotland, although not by much, as it is little more than a stone's throw from fellow Orcadian, Scapa. Accounts of the distillery's genesis vary, and the truth is probably lost to the mists of time, but it is thought that a local farmer named David Robertson founded what we now know as Highland Park distillery in 1798, on the site of an illicit still operated by renegade smuggler (and former priest) Magnus Eunson.

Since its introduction as a single malt in the late 1970s, the distillery has been awarded many plaudits, not least of which came from the late, great whisky writer Michael Jackson, who called it “the greatest all rounder in the world of whisky”. It's characteristic style coming from the use of Sherry casks, along with an often cited heathery sweetness imparted to the spirit by way of the distinct Orcadian peat used during the malting process.

This limited edition was created in 2007 to mark the "Lunar Nutation", a complete cycle of the Moon, taking 18.6 years. These cycles were closely observed by the early inhabitants of Orkney, who used the Neolithic stone circle "the Ring of Brodgar" to chart the celestial event.

Age: 18 3/5 years old

45.1% ABV / 70cl

Bottle Number: One of only 500 bottles released

Please note minor chip to wooden box

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