Highland Park – Orkney Rowing Club (70cl, 58%)

Highland Park – Orkney Rowing Club is a single malt whisky from Highland Park (Islands). Bottled at 58% ABV, 70cl. Highland Park is known for being the most Northern Scotch Whisky Distillery in the world. It is situated on the outskirts of the biggest town in Orkney 58.9847°N. It is so far North it is almost in the Arctic Circle. To give you an idea, it is on the same latitude as Anchorage, Alaska. The distillery has been distilling on the same site since 1798 where the founder, Magnus Eunson's, original illicit still was at High Park. They smoke their own barley from over 4,000 year old peat which has been cut from the Hobbister Moor only seven miles from the distillery. A special edition, released to support the work of Orkney Rowing Club, this whisky has been bottled at 58%. A percentage of the proceeds from the original sale of this bottle was donated to the Orkney Rowing Club. This is a limited edition release of only 4,000 bottles.