Whiskies from Highland Park

DistilleryName Vintage l. SVA
Serge Valentin is one of the most prolific whisky aficionados and the premier source of whisky reviews. Serge uses the 100 point scale for his ratings.
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Gal Granov is considered one of the most proactive of all independent whisky bloggers at this moment, a rising star in the whisky scene. Gal uses a 100 point scale for his ratings.
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We rate most of the whiskies ourselves and use the 100 point scale. If we do not have a rating, we publish ratings of other renowned whisky critics in this column.
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Highland Park • 40 Years Old Spring 2019 Release 43.2% NV 0,70 94 1 € 3.099,15 € 3.749,97
Highland Park • 30 Years Old 2005 48.1% NV 0,70 92 1 € 1.648,46 € 1.994,64
Highland Park • 1970 Gordon & MacPhail Rare Old 40% 1970 0,70 88 1 € 1.157,02 € 1.399,99
Highland Park • 35 Years Old Celtic Heartlands Autographed 40.1% 1967 0,70 91 1 € 1.095,04 € 1.325,00
Highland Park • 25 Years Dumpy 51.5% NV 0,70 90 90 1 € 952,00 € 1.151,92
Highland Park • Bicentenary 40% (Low Neck) 1977 0,70 90 1 € 735,29 € 889,70
Highland Park • 32 Years Old Gordon & MacPhail Connoisseurs Choice Cask Strength Cask 10015 53.8% 1989 0,70 91 1 € 699,99 € 846,99
Highland Park • 12 Years Old Cask Strength Limited Edition 55.7% NV 0,70 89 1 € 619,83 € 749,99
Highland Park • 32 Years Old The Maltman Cask 10523 43% 1989 0,70 90 3 € 437,15 € 528,95
Highland Park • 12 Years Old Dumpy Bottle Screen printed label 40% (Lower Filling) NV 0,75 90 1 € 268,60 € 325,01
Highland Park • 16 Years Old Duty Free Old Label 40% NV 1,0 87 1 € 247,93 € 300,00
Highland Park • 21 Years Old November 2020 Release 46% NV 0,70 89 4 € 205,79 € 249,01
Highland Park • 21 Years Old November 2019 Release 46% NV 0,70 89 3 € 204,99 € 248,04
Highland Park • 24 Years Old Undisclosed Distillery (Orkney) Infrequent Flyers Cask 5744 51.3% 1999 0,70 89 1 € 152,85 € 184,95
Highland Park • Triskelion 45.1% NV 0,70 89.5 11 € 135,49 € 163,94
Highland Park • 18 Years Old The Maltman Secret Orkney Cask 63364 51.4% 2002 0,70 88 1 € 112,50 € 136,13
Highland Park • 16 Years Old M.Wigman & The Malt Affair Secret Orkney 52.9% 2006 0,70 89 12 € 109,99 € 133,09
Highland Park • 15 Years Old M.Wigman They Inspired III Whisky Icons Sukhinder Singh 50.8% 2008 0,70 88 88.5 9 € 105,00 € 127,05
Highland Park • 17 Years Old WhiskyNerds Secret Orkney Cask 13 49.4% 2004 0,70 90 88 15 € 100,00 € 121,00
Highland Park • 11 Years Old Provenance for International Whisky Society Cask DMG 5836 46% 1998 0,70 85 1 € 82,64 € 99,99
Highland Park • 13 Years Old Dràm Mòr Cask 137 54.6% 2008 0,70 87 1 € 80,00 € 96,80
Highland Park • 10 Years Old Gleann Mór 50% 2010 0,70 85 4 € 58,00 € 70,18

Highland Park

Highland Park was founded in 1826 in Kirkwall, the capital of the Orkney Islands. It is the archipelago's most northern distillery. Its history of more than two centuries is rooted in the Scandinavian era of the Vikings. Highland Park has a wide range of several very popular whiskeys such as the Highland Park 12 years old Viking Honor, and exclusive vintage editions such as the Highland Park 1902 Berry Bros & Rudd. Highland Park is one of the most successful internationally operating distilleries in the world.

The myths that circulate about the history of the Highland Park distillery have their origins in the late 18th century, and are probably some of the most enigmatic historic tales from the world of Scotch whiskey. Legend has it that Highland Park was founded in 1798 by the legendary smuggling “whiskey priest” Magnus Eunson, a man who is said to have established an illegal distillery on the current site of Highland Park. Magnus Eunson was a cheeky man: he was the priest of Kirkwall Cathedral, a religious leader and an illegal whiskey distiller, who hid his produced whiskey under the lecterns in the cathedral.

One day, when customs arrived in Orkney, Magnus Eunson knew his illegal practices would be discovered. He decided to move his filled whiskey casks from the cathedral to the rectory where he lived. He put a sheet over the casks, placed a coffin on top and instructed the parishioners to form a circle around the coffin. Meanwhile, customs officers searched the town of Kirkwall, and also visited the cathedral. While searching the rectory, the customs officers noticed the coffin, which was surrounded by the parishioners singing a dirge while holding Bibles in their hands. Magnus Eunson then made customs officials believe that a funeral ceremony was being held in honour of a smallpox death. Fearing for their lives, the men fled the cathedral, leaving Magnus Eunson's illegal practices undetected.

However, other sources claim that Eunson's practices were indeed discovered through an intervention by the customs officer named John Robertson, who would go on to become the co-founder of the distillery. Robertson worked as an excise officer in the 19th century, and some believe that John Robertson took over Eunson's illegal distillery, by which means Euston managed to clandestinely escape persecution.

Exactly what happened in these years around the founding of Highland Park will probably remain a mystery forever. What we do know for sure is that Robert Borwick and John Robertson founded the Highland Park Distillery as a legal concern in 1826. In fact, a lot of illegal whiskey was distilled before the Excise Act of 1823, and numerous illegal and still unknown moonshiners have contributed to the rise of the (unregistered) whiskey industry. It is advisable to approach any undocumented historical narrative with a certain amount of skepticism, especially since distilleries' historical stories have always been surrounded by myths and heroic tales.

Nevertheless, the name Magnus Eunson remains inseparable from the historical roots of the Highland Park distillery, the oldest and most enigmatic historical story in the whiskey world.

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DistilleryName Vintage l. SVA
Serge Valentin is one of the most prolific whisky aficionados and the premier source of whisky reviews. Serge uses the 100 point scale for his ratings.
GGR
Gal Granov is considered one of the most proactive of all independent whisky bloggers at this moment, a rising star in the whisky scene. Gal uses a 100 point scale for his ratings.
Other
BOW
We rate most of the whiskies ourselves and use the 100 point scale. If we do not have a rating, we publish ratings of other renowned whisky critics in this column.
#
Number of bottles in stock
Price (incl. VAT)
Highland Park • 1902 Reserve 50 Years Old Berrys All Malt by Berry Bros & Rudd 39.8% 1902 0,75 86 0 sold out
Highland Park • 40 Years Old 48.3% (Into Neck) NV 0,70 95 0 sold out
Highland Park • 40 Years Old 48.3% NV 0,70 95 0 sold out
Highland Park • 40 Years Old 48.3% NV 0,70 95 94 0 sold out
Highland Park • 1959 21 Years Old 43% 1959 0,75 95 0 sold out
Highland Park • 40 Years Old 48.3% (owc slightly damaged with a scratch) NV 0,70 95 0 sold out
Highland Park • Valhalla Collection Longship 3,0 88 88 0 sold out
Highland Park • Highland Park 40 Years Old Bottled: 2008 48,3% NV 0,70 96 94 95 0 sold out
Highland Park • Valhalla Collection NV 3,0 0 sold out
Highland Park • 37 Years Old 1973 Global Travel Retail 50.6% 1973 0,70 93 93 0 sold out
Highland Park • 28 Years Old Vintage 1973 Cask 11151 45.4% 1973 0,70 90 92 0 sold out
Highland Park • 1960 18 Years Old 43% 1960 0,75 94 0 sold out
Highland Park • 28 Years Old 1967 43% 1967 0,70 0 sold out
Highland Park • Thorfinn 45.1% NV 0,70 93 0 sold out
Highland Park • 37 Years Old Duncan Taylor Peerless Cask 4637 40.9% 1966 0,70 93 0 sold out
Highland Park • 39 Years Duncan Taylor Cask 3460 41.8% 1968 0,70 90.5 0 sold out
Highland Park • 33 Years Old 1978 Vintage Collection 47.8% 1978 0,70 80 91 0 sold out
Highland Park • 30 Years Old 45.7% (Into Neck) NV 0,70 92 0 sold out
Highland Park • 25 Years Old Dumpy 50.7% NV 0,70 90 91 0 sold out
Highland Park • 25 Years Dumpy 50.7% NV 0,70 90 91 0 sold out
Highland Park • 36 Years Old Gordon & MacPhail Rare Old 43% 1973 0,70 88 0 sold out
Highland Park • 27 Years Old Hart Brothers 1968 43% 1968 0,70 93 0 sold out
Highland Park • Centenary Reserve Gordon & MacPhail 40% (Lower Neck) 1970 0,70 88 0 sold out
Highland Park • 30 Years Old Signatory 30th Anniversary Cask 755 49.7% 1988 0,70 92 0 sold out
Highland Park • Thor 16 Years old Valhalla Collection 52.1% NV 0,70 89 86 90 88.5 0 sold out
Highland Park • The Battle of Jutland Cask 3378 64% 2004 0,70 0 sold out
Highland Park • 30 Years Old 45.7% NV 0,70 92 0 sold out
Highland Park • 1978 Vintage Collection Global Travel Retail 47.8% 1978 0,70 90 0 sold out
Highland Park • 27 Years Old Signatory 30th Anniversary Cask 15086 52% 1991 0,70 92 92 0 sold out
Highland Park • 26 Years Old Søren Solkær 40.5% NV 0,70 93 0 sold out
Highland Park • 25 Years Dumpy 50.7% NV 0,70 90 91 0 sold out
Highland Park • 30 Years Old Silver Seal Wildlife Collection Cask 372 51% 1985 0,70 91 0 sold out
Highland Park • Thor 16 Years old Valhalla Collection 52.1% NV 0,70 89 86 90 88.5 0 sold out
Highland Park • Thor 16 Years old Valhalla Collection NO BOX 52.1% NV 0,70 89 86 90 0 sold out
Highland Park • 25 Years Old Spring 2019 Release 46% NV 0,70 90 0 sold out
Highland Park • 8 Years Old From the Islands of Orkney 40% NV 0,757 88 91.5 0 sold out
Highland Park • 26 Years Old Søren Solkær 40.5% NV 0,70 93 0 sold out
Highland Park • 25 Years Old 48.1% NV 0,70 92 0 sold out
Highland Park • Thor 16 Years old Valhalla Collection 52.1% NV 0,70 89 86 90 88 0 sold out
Highland Park • 25 Years Old 2009 Version 48.1% NV 0,70 92 0 sold out
Highland Park • Thor 16 Years old Valhalla Collection 52.1% NV 0,70 89 86 90 89 0 sold out
Highland Park • 25 Years Old 2012 45.7% NV 0,70 90 90 0 sold out
Highland Park • 25 Years Dumpy 53.5% NV 0,70 90 0 sold out
Highland Park • 28 Years Old Silver Seal Giuseppe Verdi Aida Cask:1555 47.7% 1987 0,70 0 sold out
Highland Park • 25 Years Old 2009 Version 48.1% (Low filing) NV 0,70 92 0 sold out
Highland Park • Thor 16 Years old Valhalla Collection 52.1% NV 0,70 89 86 90 88 0 sold out
Highland Park • 29 Years Old Cadenhead's Warehouse Tasting 51.5% 1988 0,70 90 0 sold out
Highland Park • 16 Years Old Odin Valhalla Collection 55,8% NV 0,70 86 91 87.5 0 sold out
Highland Park • Earl Magnus 52.6% 1998 0,70 89 94 92 0 sold out
Highland Park • Earl Haakon 54.9% 1993 0,70 90 84 0 sold out
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