Sold outMar 2021In short · Highland Park (Islands), 11 years.
“This bottle is limited to 1 per member We were working with a traditional hand-operated cider press in a dunnage warehouse when we got served steaming hot freshly brewed…”Extract · full tasting notes at SMWS
SMWS 4.265 is a single cask of Highland Park, in the Islands region, 11 years old, bottled at 57.4%, released in the Mar 2021 Outturn. Every Society bottle numbered 4.x is from Highland Park.
Specs, price and tasting-note extract from the SMWS. Full notes on smws.com.
Far north on Orkney, above Kirkwall and scoured by Atlantic wind, Highland Park has made whisky since 1798. It is among the last to still malt its own barley on the floor by hand and kiln it over island peat, heather-rich and aromatic, quite unlike the mainland's. The result is a beautifully poised malt where wood-smoke and honey hold hands. Edrington own it; the Norsemen, in spirit, still haunt it.