Highland Park Viking Honour 12 Year Old, Sherry Cask, 2020, 40%

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. This 12 Year Old 'Viking Honour' is a flagship expression, matured in sherry-seasoned European and American oak casks, offering a balance of smoky peat, sweet honey, and rich fruit notes.