SCYFOOD > Whisky Highland Park 1958 40 Year Old Contact Customer Service ENQUIRY Highland Park is a whisky distillery founded in 1798 and located in Kirkwall in the Orkney Islands of Scotland, Highland Park is one of the last distilleries that maltes some of its own barley and uses its own peat from Hobbister Moor for drying. The water is very hard and rises from a spring on a hill-a-mile away from the distillery, it is heldd in a reservoir at a dissued Walliwall quarry bedore being piped ti the distillery, Michael Jackson, one of the best specialists, author of various books on Belgian whiskies and beers, reports that Higland Park is the only whisky that has ever been rated 10 out of 10 by Scotsman tasters. A legendary bottling of Highland Park, this 40 year old was bottled in 1998 and was the final premium release by the distillery under its ownership by Highland Distilleries, who were acquired by Edrington and William Grant & Sons the following year. 70cl/44%
