Orkney Single Malt Refill Hogshead 'Full Cask' No 1023
⏳ Drikkevindue
As a distilled spirit, this single malt does not mature further in the bottle and is ready to enjoy immediately upon release. It will remain in peak condition indefinitely if stored upright, cool, and away from direct light.
🍽️ Mad & Vin-match
Smoked wild salmon, mature blue cheeses such as Stilton, and rich dark chocolate desserts.
✨ Tekniske specifikationer
Hailing from the wind-swept Orkney Islands, Highland Park is one of Scotland's most remote and historic distilleries, founded in 1798 by Magnus Eunson, a direct descendant of Viking settlers. This single malt, matured in a single refill hogshead (Cask No 1023), showcases the distillery's legendary maritime character. Orkney's treeless, gale-brushed landscape produces a unique peat composed almost entirely of decomposing heather. When burned to dry the malted barley, it imparts a delicate, aromatic, and sweet floral smoke rather than the medicinal, heavy peat found in Islay whiskies. Maturation in a refill hogshead allows this coastal terroir and the distillery's signature heather-honey sweetness to take center stage, yielding a highly complex, unadulterated expression of Orkney's rugged heritage.
🍾 Om vinhuset / producenten
Highland Park blev grundlagt i 1798 i Kirkwall på det afsidesliggende Orkney-øhav og er et af Skotlands mest traditionsrige og nordligst beliggende single malt-destillerier. Destilleriet, som i dag er ejet af Edrington Group, værner kompromisløst om det klassiske whiskyhåndværk; her praktiserer man fortsat traditionel gulvmaltning med håndkraft og høster tæt, lyngmættet tørv fra den nærliggende Hobbister Moor. Modningen foregår primært på udsøgte sherrytilsmagte egetræsfade i Orkneys kølige, vindblæste kystklima. Dette enestående samspil mellem terroir og håndværk skaber Highland Parks verdensberømte signaturstil, som udmærker sig ved en elegant aromatisk tørverøg, en cremet sødme af lynghonning og dybe, komplekse krydderitoner.