Highland Park Single Malt Scotch Whisky

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Title: Highland Park Single Malt Scotch Whisky Category: Top 10+ Whisky Brands Origin: Scotland Listing added: May 24, 2009 Comments: 0 PageRank: 5/10

Highland Park Single Malt is a Scotch whisky distilled by Highland Park Distillery, Kirkwall in Orkney, the northernmost distillery in Scotland, a half mile north from that of Scapa. However, Blackwood under construction in Shetland will take this title at some point in the future.
The distillery was founded in 1798. The name of this whisky does not refer to the area of Scotland known as The Highlands, from which Orkney is excluded, but rather to the fact that the distillery was founded on an area distinguished from a lower area nearby.
Highland Park is one of the few distilleries to malt its own barley, using locally cut peat from Hobbister Moor. The peat is then mixed with heather before being used as fuel. The malt is peated to a level of 20 parts per million phenol, and then mixed with unpeated malt produced on the Scottish mainland.
Highland Park is available in various proprietary bottlings by year, as well as a special bottling known as Cappella, available only at the distillery. In addition, several independent bottlings of Highland Park are produced. Highland Park is also one of the ingredients of the Famous Grouse blend.

Origin:	Scotland
Web page:	www.highlandpark.co.uk
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