Whiskies from Highland Park

BOW 85
Highland Park
Highland Park - 10 Years Old Gleann Mór 50% 2010

10 Years Old Gleann Mór 50%

2010
€ 58,00 (ex Vat) € 70,18 (in Vat) more info
BOW 85
Highland Park
Highland Park - 11 Years Old Provenance for International Whisky Society Cask DMG 5836 46% 1998

11 Years Old Provenance for International Whisky Society Cask DMG 5836 46%

1998
€ 82,64 (ex Vat) € 99,99 (in Vat) more info
BOW 89
Highland Park
Highland Park - 12 Years Old Cask Strength Limited Edition 55.7% NV

12 Years Old Cask Strength Limited Edition 55.7%

€ 619,83 (ex Vat) € 749,99 (in Vat) more info
BOW 90
Highland Park
Highland Park - 12 Years Old Dumpy Bottle Screen printed label 40% NV

12 Years Old Dumpy Bottle Screen printed label 40%

(Lower Filling)
€ 268,60 (ex Vat) € 325,01 (in Vat) more info
BOW 87
Highland Park
Highland Park - 13 Years Old Dràm Mòr Cask 137 54.6% 2008

13 Years Old Dràm Mòr Cask 137 54.6%

2008
€ 80,00 (ex Vat) € 96,80 (in Vat) more info
BOW 88.5
Highland Park
Highland Park - 15 Years Old M.Wigman They Inspired III Whisky Icons Sukhinder Singh 50.8% 2008

15 Years Old M.Wigman They Inspired III Whisky Icons Sukhinder Singh 50.8%

2008
€ 105,00 (ex Vat) € 127,05 (in Vat) more info
BOW 89 Sale
Highland Park
Highland Park - 16 Years Old M.Wigman & The Malt Affair Secret Orkney 52.9% 2006

16 Years Old M.Wigman & The Malt Affair Secret Orkney 52.9%

2006
€ 120,00 € 109,99 (ex Vat) € 133,09 (in Vat) more info
Malt Fascination 90
Highland Park
Highland Park - 17 Years Old WhiskyNerds Secret Orkney Cask 13 49.4% 2004

17 Years Old WhiskyNerds Secret Orkney Cask 13 49.4%

2004
€ 100,00 (ex Vat) € 121,00 (in Vat) more info
BOW 88
Highland Park
Highland Park - 18 Years Old The Maltman Secret Orkney Cask 63364 51.4% 2002

18 Years Old The Maltman Secret Orkney Cask 63364 51.4%

2002
€ 112,50 (ex Vat) € 136,13 (in Vat) more info
BOW 88
Highland Park
Highland Park - 1970 Gordon & MacPhail Rare Old 40% 1970

1970 Gordon & MacPhail Rare Old 40%

1970
€ 1.157,02 (ex Vat) € 1.399,99 (in Vat) more info
BOW 89
Highland Park
Highland Park - 21 Years Old November 2019 Release 46% NV

21 Years Old November 2019 Release 46%

€ 204,99 (ex Vat) € 248,04 (in Vat) more info
BOW 89
Highland Park
Highland Park - 21 Years Old November 2020 Release 46% NV

21 Years Old November 2020 Release 46%

€ 205,79 (ex Vat) € 249,01 (in Vat) more info
Serge Valentin 90
Highland Park
Highland Park - 25 Years Dumpy 51.5% NV

25 Years Dumpy 51.5%

€ 952,00 (ex Vat) € 1.151,92 (in Vat) more info
BOW 91
Highland Park
Highland Park - 32 Years Old Gordon & MacPhail Connoisseurs Choice Cask Strength Cask 10015 53.8% 1989

32 Years Old Gordon & MacPhail Connoisseurs Choice Cask Strength Cask 10015 53.8%

1989
€ 699,99 (ex Vat) € 846,99 (in Vat) more info
BOW 90
Highland Park
Highland Park - 32 Years Old The Maltman Cask 10523 43% 1989

32 Years Old The Maltman Cask 10523 43%

1989
€ 437,15 (ex Vat) € 528,95 (in Vat) more info
BOW 91
Highland Park
Highland Park - 35 Years Old Celtic Heartlands Autographed 40.1% 1967

35 Years Old Celtic Heartlands Autographed 40.1%

1967
€ 1.095,04 (ex Vat) € 1.325,00 (in Vat) more info
BOW 94
Highland Park
Highland Park - 40 Years Old Spring 2019 Release 43.2% NV

40 Years Old Spring 2019 Release 43.2%

€ 3.099,15 (ex Vat) € 3.749,97 (in Vat) more info
BOW 90
Highland Park
Highland Park - Bicentenary 40% 1977

Bicentenary 40%

1977
(Low Neck)
€ 647,06 (ex Vat) € 782,94 (in Vat) more info
BOW 89.5
Highland Park
Highland Park - Triskelion 45.1% NV

Triskelion 45.1%

€ 135,49 (ex Vat) € 163,94 (in Vat) more info

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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