Sold outJan 2024In short · Highland Park (Islands), 18 years.
“Coming across a patch of muirburn, the Panellists extinguished the smouldering heather with runny honey, as ash rained down on salted caramel and lobster pots.…”Extract · full tasting notes at SMWS
SMWS 4.383 is a single cask of Highland Park, in the Islands region, 18 years old, bottled at 57.1%, released in the Jan 2024 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.