Highland Park – Hobbister (70cl, 51.4%)

Highland Park – Hobbister is a whisky from Highland Park (Islands). Bottled at 51.4% ABV, 70cl. 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. This is the first in Highland Park’s Keystone series. Named after their peat moor, which because it is made from decaying heather gives Highland Park its unique character. Made from spirit that was peated with 100% Orcadian barley mixed with stock that makes up the standard 12 year old. Please note wear to carton