HIGHLAND PARK WHISKY MANUAL
Every single batch is turned into elaborate manual work. Highland Park is one of the few distilleries in Scotland that still rely on traditional floor maltings within the distillery. Highland Park sees five key factors that determine the quality of their whisky: Malt turned by hand As a single malt whisky, Highland Park has an excellent aging potential, which is why very unusual vintage whiskies always come onto the market. In addition to blended Scotch whiskies such as Cutty Sark and The Famous Grouse, Highland Park is also used in blends such as Chivas Regal and Dimple.
Highland Park is a very highly valued whisky due to the distillery character. In 1984, he was the only whisky ever to get a rating of 100 points from the buttons of the largest Scottish daily newspaper “The Scotsman”! Highland Park was called “the greatest all-rounder in the world of malt whisky” by the late, great, whisky evangelist Michael Jackson. Annual production is around 2.5 million liters, making Highland Park one of the larger distilleries in Scotland. The distillery has one Mash tun (11.4 t) made of stainless steel, twelve wooden washbacks (fermentation tanks) with a capacity of 29,200 litres each, two wash stills (14,600 litres each) and two spirit stills (8,500 litres each) all are heated by steam. The peated barley produced onsite is mixed with unpeated barley from the Scottish Highlands. The water comes from the underground Cattie Maggie spring. The peat required for this comes from the Hobbister Moor, which extends a few kilometers southwest of Mainland. The barley is malted here and the kilns are fired with to produce a a phenol content of around 20 ppm. How is Highland Park whisky produced?As one of the few whisky distilleries, Highland Park still has its own onsite malting with traditional floor maltings. Highland Park is famous for its best-selling the 12 and 18 year old malt whisky but the distillery also releases a number of limited varieties. Highland Park often works with sherry barrels, which gives many single malts orange notes and aromas of spicy nutmeg. This complements the floral notes, the fine honey sweetness, and softness normally associated with the Speyside region. What does Highland Park whisky taste like? Highland Park Whisky has a special heather character and delicate peat smoke somewhat different to mainland peated whiskies with an oily maritime note. The distillery takes it’s name from the area called ‘High Park’ which the distillery was founded on. The Highland Park Distillery is one of the six distilleries in Scotland that only use home-grown grain and one of only a handful to continue their own, on site maltings. Highland Park is a Highland distillery, despite sometimes being listed as belonging to the Islands whisky region, however the Islands are not currently a legally defined or recognised area. Though not Scotland’s northernmost distillery, an honour that instead goes to the Blackwood gin distillery on the Shetland Islands. It is currently the northernmost Scottish whisky distillery. Highland Park is located in Kirkwall on the the largest of the Orkney Islands to the north of Scotland. The Highland Park 12 years should not be missing in any whisky bar! Highland Park Whisky Its pleasant heather and honey flavors make Highland Park, together with the delicate peat smoke, a perfect all-rounder. Highland Park is, at least until the new micro Scotch distillery opens in John O’Groats in 2021, Scotland’s northernmost whisky distillery on the storm-swept Orkney Islands.
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