Sold outDec 2023In short · Highland Park (Islands), 13 years.
“The neat nose appeared gently ashy, with impressions of coal scuttles, fire embers in a cast-iron hearth and feelings of lightly smoked pork scratchings.…”Extract · full tasting notes at SMWS
SMWS 4.368 is a single cask of Highland Park, in the Islands region, 13 years old, bottled at 62.6%, released in the Dec 2023 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.