• Founded: 1798
• Status: Operational
• Region: Highlands (Island), Orkney, Scotland.
• Online: https://www.highlandparkwhisky.com/

History The distillery was founded in 1798, presumably by Magnus Eunson. The name of this whisky does not refer to the area of Scotland known as The Highlands, but rather to the fact that the distillery was founded on an area called ‘High Park’ distinguished from a lower area nearby. Highland Park is one of the few distilleries to malt its own barley, using locally cut peat from Hobbister Moor. The peat is then mixed with heather before being used as fuel. The malt is peated to a level of 20 parts per million phenol and then mixed with unpeated malt produced on the Scottish mainland. In 1984, Highland Park was the only whisky ever to have scored a rating of 100% by the regular tasting team of The Scotsman, a national newspaper of Scotland. Whisky reviewer Michael Jackson has called it “The greatest all-rounder in the world of malt whisky.”

The Whiskyphiles tasting notes

Official Bottling

• Highland Park 12 Year Old 2005 Single Cask Gatwick WDF (2018)
• Highland Park 12 Years Old (2014)
• Highland Park 14 Years Old Loyalty Of The Wolf (2018)
• Highland Park 16 Years Old Wings Of The Eagle (2018)
• Highland Park 18 Years Old (2015)
• Highland Park 21 Years Old (2016)
• Highland Park Dragon Legend (2018)
• Highland Park Drakkar (2013)
• Highland Park Freya (2014)
• Highland Park Hobbister (2016)
• Highland Park Loki (2014)
• Highland Park Spirit Of The Bear (2018)
• Highland Park Thor (2014)

Independent Bottling

Cadenhead

• Highland Park 22 Years Old 1992 Sherry Cask (2015)
• Highland Park 22 Years Old 1992 Small Batch (2014)
• Highland Park 27 Years Old 1988 Wine Cask (2016)

Douglas Laing

• Highland Park 28 Years Old 1984 Director’s Cut (2015)

Duncan Taylor

• Highland Park 2003 Post-Octave (2018)
• Highland Park 2003 Pre-Octave (2018)

Gordon & MacPhail

• Highland Park 13 Years Old 2004 Connoisseurs Choice (2018)
• Highland Park 1989 Connoisseurs Choice (2021)

Robert Graham

• Highland Park 25 Years Old Treasurer’s Selection (2018)

Scotch Malt Whisky Society

• SMWS 4.194 Lip-smacking and mouth-puckering (2015)
• SMWS 4.202 Salt and pepper (2015)
• SMWS 4.214 After hours (2015)