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 • 10 Years Old Gleann Mór 50% 2010 0,70 85 4 € 58,00 € 70,18
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 • 12 Years Old Cask Strength Limited Edition 55.7% NV 0,70 89 1 € 619,83 € 749,99
Highland Park • 12 Years Old Dumpy Bottle Screen printed label 40% (Lower Filling) NV 0,75 90 1 € 268,60 € 325,01
Highland Park • 13 Years Old Dràm Mòr Cask 137 54.6% 2008 0,70 87 1 € 80,00 € 96,80
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 • 16 Years Old Duty Free Old Label 40% NV 1,0 87 1 € 247,93 € 300,00
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 • 17 Years Old WhiskyNerds Secret Orkney Cask 13 49.4% 2004 0,70 90 88 15 € 100,00 € 121,00
Highland Park • 18 Years Old The Maltman Secret Orkney Cask 63364 51.4% 2002 0,70 88 1 € 112,50 € 136,13
Highland Park • 1970 Gordon & MacPhail Rare Old 40% 1970 0,70 88 1 € 1.157,02 € 1.399,99
Highland Park • 21 Years Old November 2019 Release 46% NV 0,70 89 3 € 204,99 € 248,04
Highland Park • 21 Years Old November 2020 Release 46% NV 0,70 89 4 € 205,79 € 249,01
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 • 25 Years Dumpy 51.5% NV 0,70 90 90 1 € 952,00 € 1.151,92
Highland Park • 30 Years Old 2005 48.1% NV 0,70 92 1 € 1.648,46 € 1.994,64
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 • 32 Years Old The Maltman Cask 10523 43% 1989 0,70 90 3 € 437,15 € 528,95
Highland Park • 35 Years Old Celtic Heartlands Autographed 40.1% 1967 0,70 91 1 € 1.095,04 € 1.325,00
Highland Park • 40 Years Old Spring 2019 Release 43.2% NV 0,70 94 1 € 3.099,15 € 3.749,97
Highland Park • Bicentenary 40% (Low Neck) 1977 0,70 90 1 € 735,29 € 889,70
Highland Park • Triskelion 45.1% NV 0,70 89.5 11 € 135,49 € 163,94

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 • 10 Years Old Usquebaugh Society Cask 20574 46% 1992 0,70 0 sold out
Highland Park • 10 Years Old Viking Scars NV 0,70 0 sold out
Highland Park • 11 Years Old For Maxxium Belgium Cask 1559 59.6% NV 0,70 0 sold out
Highland Park • 11 Years Old Millennium Edition Cask 11733 43% 1988 1,5 0 sold out
Highland Park • 11 Years Old Signatory Vintage Dumpy Cask 15448 57.7% 1990 0,70 87 0 sold out
Highland Park • 11 Years Old Single Cask 2519 for the Netherlands 66.4% 2008 0,70 84 90 0 sold out
Highland Park • 12 Years Dumpy Bottle 40% NV 0,70 0 sold out
Highland Park • 12 Years Old 43% NV 0,70 0 sold out
Highland Park • 12 Years Old Dumpy Bottle 43% NV 0,70 0 sold out
Highland Park • 12 Years Old Dumpy Bottle Short Black Band Type Label 40% NV 0,70 0 sold out
Highland Park • 12 Years Old Dumpy Bottle Short Black Band Type Label 40% NV 0,70 87 0 sold out
Highland Park • 12 Years Old Dumpy Bottle Short Black Band Type Label 40% NV 1,0 0 sold out
Highland Park • 12 Years Old Dumpy Bottle Short Black Band Type Label 40% NV 0,70 89 0 sold out
Highland Park • 12 Years Old Dumpy Bottle Sunset Label 40% NV 0,70 87 0 sold out
Highland Park • 12 Years Old Dumpy Bottle Sunset Label 40% NV 0,70 87 0 sold out
Highland Park • 12 Years Old Duncan Taylor NC² Range 46% 1994 0,70 88 0 sold out
Highland Park • 12 Years Old For Maxxium Netherlands Cask 1550 60% NV 0,35 89 90 0 sold out
Highland Park • 12 Years Old For Maxxium Netherlands Cask 974 58.9% NV 0,375 88 0 sold out
Highland Park • 12 Years Old Giftpack Edition with 2 Glasses 40% NV 0,70 85 0 sold out
Highland Park • 12 Years Old Orkneyinga Legacy 46% nv 0,70 88 0 sold out
Highland Park • 12 Years Old Viking Honour 40% NV 0,70 0 sold out
Highland Park • 12 Years Old Viking Honour Giftpack Edition with 2 Glasses 40% NV 0,70 87 0 sold out
Highland Park • 13 Years Old Signatory Vintage Cask 10454 46% 1988 0,70 87 0 sold out
Highland Park • 13.5 Years Old Cask 700067 Bottled for FAMILY AND FRIENDS 55.5% 2006 0,70 88 0 sold out
Highland Park • 14 Years Old Cadenhead 55.2% 1978 0,70 92 0 sold out
Highland Park • 14 Years Old The Electric Coo Series 54% 2007 0,70 87 0 sold out
Highland Park • 14 Years Old The Ultimate Cask DRU 17/A65-11 46% 2006 0,70 83 88 0 sold out
Highland Park • 15 Years Old 40% NV 0,70 87 0 sold out
Highland Park • 15 Years Old 40% NV 0,70 87 0 sold out
Highland Park • 15 Years Old Fire Edition 45.2% NV 0,70 87 84 88 0 sold out
Highland Park • 15 Years Old Fire Edition 45.2% NV 0,70 87 84 88 0 sold out
Highland Park • 15 Years Old Loki Valhalla Collection 48.7% NV 0,70 92 89 90 90 0 sold out
Highland Park • 15 Years Old Loki Valhalla Collection 48.7% NV 0,70 92 89 89 90 0 sold out
Highland Park • 15 Years Old Man of Hoy Picture 40% NV 0,70 85 0 sold out
Highland Park • 15 Years Old Man of Hoy Picture 40% NV 0,70 85 0 sold out
Highland Park • 15 Years Old Signatory Vintage Cask 800267 58.3% 2000 0,70 0 sold out
Highland Park • 15 Years Old Single Cask 6145 for the Netherlands 57.3% 2003 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 • 16 Years Old Odin Valhalla Collection 55.8% NV 0,70 86 91 88 88 0 sold out
Highland Park • 16 Years Old Old Malt Cask Cask: DL8779 50% 1996 0,70 0 sold out
Highland Park • 16 Years Old Single Cask 5831 for Maxxium Netherlands 58.7% 1990 0,35 90 0 sold out
Highland Park • 16 Years Old Single Cask 5831 for Maxxium Netherlands 58.7% 1990 0,35 90 0 sold out
Highland Park • 16 Years Old Single Cask:4386 for Belgium 57.3% 1989 0,70 0 sold out
Highland Park • 16 Years Old SMWS 4.210 Whisky Smash 60.1.% 1999 0,70 88 0 sold out
Highland Park • 16 Years Old Twisted Tattoo 46.7% NV 0,70 85 0 sold out
Highland Park • 17 Years Old Eiling Lim Orkney Single Malt Zen Label 51.8% 2000 0,70 88 0 sold out
Highland Park • 17 Years Old First Cask 57.8% 2003 0,70 86 0 sold out
Highland Park • 17 Years Old Ice Edition 53.9% NV 0,70 88 85 87 89 0 sold out
Highland Park • 17 Years Old Ice Edition 53.9% NV 0,70 88 85 87 89 0 sold out
Highland Park • 17 Years Old Secret Treasures Cask:20 44% 1985 0,70 0 sold out
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