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Highland Park The Dolphins Royal Navy Submarine Service Bottling & Highland Park 12 Year Old Orkneyinga Legacy

Highland Park The Dolphins Royal Navy Submarine Service Bottling & Highland Park 12 Year Old Orkneyinga Legacy
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Highland Park The Dolphins Royal Navy Submarine Service Bottling & Highland Park 12 Year Old Orkneyinga LegacyHighland Park The Dolphins Royal Navy Submarine Service Bottling & Highland Park 12 Year Old Orkneyinga Legacy

Lot number: 092-0980

Winning bid: £75

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.

The Dolphins

This is a limited release available only to staff of the Royal Navy Submarine Service.

40% ABV / 70cl

12 Year Old Orkneyinga Legacy

This 12 Year Old is named 'Orkneyinga Legacy' and proudly supports the spirit of Orkney and the Orkneyinga Saga Centre.

Age: 12 Years Old

46% ABV / 70cl

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