Highland Park Cask Strength Release No.2
February 2023

Highland Park Cask Strength Release No.2

This is the long-awaited second edition in Highland Park’s multi-award-winning Cask Strength series and a rare chance to savour one of the world’s most sought-after single malts, uncut, straight from the cask and exquisitely Sherried.

United Kingdom

Colour Rich auburn

Nose Lightly smoked with aromas of summer rose, ripe pear and fresh coconut alongside aromatic peat with a hint of cedar wood.

Palate Sweet with a harmony of wood spice with apricots in syrup, rich pear and almond cake, cloudy honey and toasted oak. Like smoked, overripe apricot jam.

Finish Notes of orchard fruits with sticky date pudding, roasted cashews and rich sherry spice.

Overview

It’s the release Highland Park fans were waiting for. And it’s an absolute masterpiece — put simply, it’s supremely drinkable, hardcore, old-school Highland Park.

We were truly honoured to bring Australia the long-awaited Highland Park Cask Strength Release No.2. 

Hand-selected by Highland Park Master Whisky Maker, Gordon Motion, and weighing in at a hefty 63.9% ABV, this is benchmark cask strength whisky, as Motion would say, in its “purest form.” It’s an exquisite example of an amazingly balanced Highland single malt with a textbook finish.

Get set for a robust and intense whisky that’s overflowing with luscious orchard fruits, sticky date pudding and rich Sherry spice. This is big, bold, benchmark spirit from one of the world’s most renowned distilleries and three-time winners of the “Best Spirit In The World.”

In Australia it was available exclusively to Members of the Club. 

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THE SPECS

Price: $205.00

Age: No Age Statement

ABV: 63.9%

Maturation: Matured predominantly in Sherry seasoned American oak casks

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Highland Park's History

While the Orkney’s locals had been honing their skills for a few centuries, it wasn’t until 1798 that an official distillery opened on the islands. But who it was that actually founded it is something still argued about in pubs today. It was either Magnus Eunson, church officer and butcher by day, and illicit distiller and whisky smuggler by night, or the honourable farmer David Robinson. What we do know, is that the distillery’s ornate iron gate has the year 1798 written on it and that’s when the distillery went into legal production, regularly paying duty on the spirit produced on site, and in 1826 Highland Park became one of Scotland’s first distilleries to get a license to make whisky.

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Distillery Facts

Region: Islands

Origin: Highland Park Distillery, Holm Road, Kirkwall, Orkney, KW15 1SU, United Kingdom

Founded: 1798

Water Source: Cattie Maggie's Spring

Washbacks: 12, wooden

Stills: 2 wash and 2 spirit

Capacity: 2,500,000 litres per annum

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