Highland Park 13-year-old (D.1988, B.2002) Signatory Vintage / 58.4% / 0.7l
- Highland Park is located in Kirkwall, the capitol of Orkney Islands, and is the northernmost distillery in Scotland. Highland Park is equipped with two pairs of stills with distilling capacity over 2.5 million liters of spirit per annum.
Product description
Highland Park is based in Kirkwall, the capital of Orkney, and is currently Scotland's most northerly distillery.
The plant has two pairs of stills and produces 2.5 million litres of distillate per year. Highland Park malts its own barley (its own malt covers around 30% of its requirements) using local peat, which, due to the lack of trees in Orkney, consists mainly of heather, which gives the whisky its characteristic flavour. Highland Park single cask editions have always attracted the attention of whisky connoisseurs and collectors, and this one is no exception. Distilled on 14th December 1988, the whisky spent over 13 years in oak cask no. 1235, and was bottled at cask strength (58.4% abv) by Signatory Vintage on 12th February 2002 in an edition of 330 bottles.
Aroma : heather honey, vanilla pudding, toffee, marzipan, orange peel, apricots, quince jam, milk chocolate, green tea, traces of wax and smoke.
Palate: milk chocolate, honey, caramel, toffee, almond croissant, sultanas, orange jam, honeydew melon, cinnamon, herbal mixture, notes of peat and oak.
Finish: long, slightly smoky, with notes of honey, toffee, licorice, citrus candy, white pepper and a trace of peat smoke.