Highland Park 2005 12 Year Old Single Cask #3631 For Aberdeen International Airport (2017) 70cl

1 of 610 bottles produced for Travel market in 2018 from Aberdeen Airport.

This Highland Park Single Cask Edition was bottled in 2018 exclusively for Aberdeen International Airport and World of Whiskies. With just 610 bottles available, the 12-year-old single malt whisky is drawn from an intriguing mix of American/Spanish oak cask and bottled at a cask strength 64.4% ABV.

Since the rise of Springbank, the catapulting of lightly peated whisky into the market has been quite significant. Highland park have always excelled at this.

Highland Park remains the most northerly whisky distillery in Scotland, although not by much, as it is little more than a stone's throw from fellow Orcadian, Scapa. Accounts of the distillery's genesis vary, and the truth is probably lost to the mists of time, but it is thought that a local farmer named David Robertson founded what we now know as Highland Park distillery in 1798, on the site of an illicit still operated by nefarious smuggler (and former priest) Magnus Eunson.

Since its introduction as a single malt in the late 1970s, the distillery has been awarded many plaudits, not least of which came from the late, great whisky writer Michael Jackson, who called it “the greatest all rounder in the world of whisky”. It's characteristic style coming from the use of Sherry casks, along with an often cited heathery sweetness imparted to the spirit by way of the distinct Orcadian peat used during the malting process.

Distilled: 2005

Bottled: 2018

Age: 12 Years Old

Cask Type: Refill Butt

Cask Number: 3631

64.4% ABV
70cl