Highland Park 1977 Bicentenary Vintage Reserve / 40% / 0.7l
- Highland Park situated on the Orkney Islands is the northernmost distillery in Scotland.
Product description
Bottle No. 02325, 07886
Based in Orkney, Highland Park is Scotland's most northerly distillery.
Although the distillery, officially founded by David Robertson, has been operating since 1798, local businessman and smuggler Magnus Eunson had previously been illegally producing whisky on the premises. Two hundred years later, to commemorate the anniversary, the distillery offered the 1977 Bicentenary Vintage Reserve edition. 15,000 bottles were quickly distributed and the whisky immediately gained collector status. To everyone's surprise, 10 years later, 800 bottles were found in a Japanese warehouse and brought to Scotland. They were placed on the market in wooden boxes marked with Japanese characters. We offer the original, in a cardboard tube.
Nose : elegant, "old style", strong notes of sherry, dried apricots and plums, slightly burnt toast, a bunch of herbs from the garden, heather, polished oak, traces of leather, a hint of cocoa and in the distance peat smoke.
Palate : rich and complex, vanilla cream, sweet cereals, honey, oranges, black cherries, dark chocolate, roasted almonds, a pinch of salt and pepper, candied ginger, peat and a light bitterness of oak.
Finish: long and peaty, honey, dark chocolate and a pinch of spice.