Highland Park 1977 28 Year Old For 50th Anniversary Of La Maison du Whisky

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 nefarious 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 Highland Park was selected and bottled for La Maison Du Whisky's 50th Anniversary.

Distilled: 1977

Bottled: 2006

Age: 28 Years Old

Cask Number: 4259

48.5% ABV / 70cl

Please note slight wear to wooden box

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