Another gorgeous cask of Highland Park bottled exclusively for K&L Wine Merchants. This one is equally special to the European oak hogshead that we also received this year, but completely different in character. The excellent malt coming out of Kirkwall is renowned worldwide for its quality; but many don't realize that Highland Park is one of a handful of Scottish distillers that continue to utilize the wildly inefficient floor maltings. The tradeoff for losing capacity to floor maltings is a malt of great character and complexity. In addition, the extremely unique Orkney peat is used to dry the barley—which is one of the main reasons for Highland Park's distinctive flavor profile. Between 20% to 30% of the hand-malted barley goes into every batch of Highland Park; resulting in lightly peated whisky that—coupled with the high quantity of active sherry casks—means the whisky isn't perceived as particularly peaty to most palates. And while Highland Park does produce small amounts of whisky that are 100% hand malted, mostly as blending components for special releases, it's rare to find a single cask that exhibits the qualities of that special Orkney peat more clearly, despite being blended with at least 70% of unmalted barley. This refill hogshead almost certainly held malt in it for a very long time before being refilled in 2008. Very dark for a refill, and the resulting spirit is the closest we've come to the "old" style Highland Park that we love so well.
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