Acclaimed Orkney whisky distillery Highland Park has released a 50-year-old single malt for just the third time in the company’s history. The single malt carries a $30,000 price tag and is presented in a handmade wooden box crafted from walnut. It also comes with a book that tells the story behind the whisky.
Limited to 274 bottles, the new Highland Park 50 Year Old (43.8% ABV) is made from nine refill casks laid down in 1968 that were combined in 2008 and re-racked into first-fill sherry-seasoned casks. “This 50-year-old whisky is one of our oldest and rarest releases and I’m very proud to have been a part of its journey,” said Gordon Motion, Highland Park’s Master Whisky Maker. “The whisky is spectacular, when I sampled the whisky from the re-racked casks, the whisky it contained – aged for a little over 50 years – had absorbed the rich Sherried flavors of dried fruit and sweet toffee from its final first-fill cask maturation, but still retained all the delicate fragrance and flavors driven by the original refill casks.” The bottlings were created using the traditional solera system, which takes a small quantity of whisky produced from a previous batch and marries it together with the new liquid. After 12 years of maturation, one cask was chosen and a small quantity of the last 50-year-old from the distillery was added. “I introduced a small quantity of this cask to some of our 2018 batch of 50 Year Old, which I’d held back specifically for this purpose, to create a further layer of depth and complexity,” said Motion. “As the 2018 50 Year Old also contains some of our 2010 batch of 50 Year Old – our first in the series – this approach allows me to maintain the core DNA of our oldest Highland Park whisky through each extremely limited batch release.” The ‘intensely rich, sweet and fragrant’ 50-year-old whisky has notes of black cherries, muscovado sugar, peaches soaked in alcohol, dark chocolate, exotic spices, candied orange peel, roasted oak, ripe apricots, espresso coffee, and light peat smoke.
The expression is contained in an embossed heavyweight glass bottle featuring a Norse-inspired design. The 2020 release of Highland Park 50 Year Old is available from specialist retailers globally, with a limited number of bottles available from the distillery and online shop. Highland Park 50 Year Old
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Acclaimed Orkney whisky distillery Highland Park has released a 50-year-old single malt for just the third time in the company’s history. The single malt carries a $30,000 price tag and is presented in a handmade wooden box crafted from walnut. It also comes with a book that tells the story behind the whisky.
Limited to 274 bottles, the new Highland Park 50 Year Old (43.8% ABV) is made from nine refill casks laid down in 1968 that were combined in 2008 and re-racked into first-fill sherry-seasoned casks. “This 50-year-old whisky is one of our oldest and rarest releases and I’m very proud to have been a part of its journey,” said Gordon Motion, Highland Park’s Master Whisky Maker. “The whisky is spectacular, when I sampled the whisky from the re-racked casks, the whisky it contained – aged for a little over 50 years – had absorbed the rich Sherried flavors of dried fruit and sweet toffee from its final first-fill cask maturation, but still retained all the delicate fragrance and flavors driven by the original refill casks.” The bottlings were created using the traditional solera system, which takes a small quantity of whisky produced from a previous batch and marries it together with the new liquid. After 12 years of maturation, one cask was chosen and a small quantity of the last 50-year-old from the distillery was added. “I introduced a small quantity of this cask to some of our 2018 batch of 50 Year Old, which I’d held back specifically for this purpose, to create a further layer of depth and complexity,” said Motion. “As the 2018 50 Year Old also contains some of our 2010 batch of 50 Year Old – our first in the series – this approach allows me to maintain the core DNA of our oldest Highland Park whisky through each extremely limited batch release.” The ‘intensely rich, sweet and fragrant’ 50-year-old whisky has notes of black cherries, muscovado sugar, peaches soaked in alcohol, dark chocolate, exotic spices, candied orange peel, roasted oak, ripe apricots, espresso coffee, and light peat smoke.
The expression is contained in an embossed heavyweight glass bottle featuring a Norse-inspired design. The 2020 release of Highland Park 50 Year Old is available from specialist retailers globally, with a limited number of bottles available from the distillery and online shop. Highland Park 50 Year Old
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Acclaimed Orkney whisky distillery Highland Park has released a 50-year-old single malt for just the third time in the company’s history.
The single malt carries a $30,000 price tag and is presented in a handmade wooden box crafted from walnut. It also comes with a book that tells the story behind the whisky.
Limited to 274 bottles, the new Highland Park 50 Year Old (43.8% ABV) is made from nine refill casks laid down in 1968 that were combined in 2008 and re-racked into first-fill sherry-seasoned casks.
“This 50-year-old whisky is one of our oldest and rarest releases and I’m very proud to have been a part of its journey,” said Gordon Motion, Highland Park’s Master Whisky Maker.
“The whisky is spectacular, when I sampled the whisky from the re-racked casks, the whisky it contained – aged for a little over 50 years – had absorbed the rich Sherried flavors of dried fruit and sweet toffee from its final first-fill cask maturation, but still retained all the delicate fragrance and flavors driven by the original refill casks.”
The bottlings were created using the traditional solera system, which takes a small quantity of whisky produced from a previous batch and marries it together with the new liquid.
After 12 years of maturation, one cask was chosen and a small quantity of the last 50-year-old from the distillery was added.
“I introduced a small quantity of this cask to some of our 2018 batch of 50 Year Old, which I’d held back specifically for this purpose, to create a further layer of depth and complexity,” said Motion.
“As the 2018 50 Year Old also contains some of our 2010 batch of 50 Year Old – our first in the series – this approach allows me to maintain the core DNA of our oldest Highland Park whisky through each extremely limited batch release.”
The ‘intensely rich, sweet and fragrant’ 50-year-old whisky has notes of black cherries, muscovado sugar, peaches soaked in alcohol, dark chocolate, exotic spices, candied orange peel, roasted oak, ripe apricots, espresso coffee, and light peat smoke.
The expression is contained in an embossed heavyweight glass bottle featuring a Norse-inspired design.
The 2020 release of Highland Park 50 Year Old is available from specialist retailers globally, with a limited number of bottles available from the distillery and online shop.
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