Highland Park

The Highland Park distillery is located on the Orkney Islands north of Scotland and is thus Scotland's most northerly whiskey distillery.

"Location matters" for whiskey producers and the Orkney archipelago, which is located where the North Sea meets the Atlantic Ocean, has a special climate: High waves, rain, salt and storms characterize the climate on Orkney, where it is never really either summer or winter. Temperatures in summer will not be higher than 16 degrees and not lower than 2 degrees in winter.

As one of the very few distilleries, Highland Park hand grinds the malt. Hard work, which means that the malt must be turned manually every eight hours, seven days a week.

The whiskey is aged in Spanish sherry casks made from European and American oak, which are assembled into casks in Jerez, Spain and filled with sherry. Only after 2 years are the casks emptied, after which they are sent to Orkney and can then be used.

It is the sherry casks that help give Highland Park its characteristic golden color in addition to a harmonious, balanced and round taste followed by a long fantastic aftertaste.

Orkney was for a large part of the Viking Age "occupied" by Vikings from both Denmark and Norway (actually Orkney is closer to Norway than to England) and this is a large part of Orkney's history, which is repeated in the production of Higland Park. Most recently, Highland Park has entered into a collaboration with the two Danes, Jim Lyngvild and Søren Solkær, respectively designer of bottles and packaging, and portrait photographer who illustrates the distillery through pictures.