Sold outOct 2022In short · Highland Park (Islands), 14 years.
“The Panel mentioned a lot of smoke nosing this one neat, but the descriptors were all very delicate - smoky almonds and bacon rashers, smoked haddock soufflé and Lapsang…”Extract · full tasting notes at SMWS
SMWS 4.326 is a single cask of Highland Park, in the Islands region, 14 years old, bottled at 60.7%, released in the Oct 2022 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.