Highland Park 1968 54 Year Old

Volume: 700ml / ABV: 46.9%

All stories start somewhere. With a place, or a time, or an event. This story starts in Orkney, an archipelago of islands scattered in the stormy waters off the northernmost tip of Scotland. Here, 225 years ago, Highland Park’s founder, Magnus Eunson, set up a whisky still high on the hillside overlooking Scapa Flow Bay. And here, 54 years ago, one of our rarest whiskies was born.

This impressive single malt from Highland Park is the distillery’s oldest and rarest release to date. It was distilled in 1968 and moved to first-fill sherry casks in 2008 where it spent an additional 14 years before bottling. This 54-year-old is intensely rich, sweet and complex, with aromas of lychee, camphor and delicate peat on the nose, complemented by notes of honeycomb, kiwi and cumin on the palate.