{"id":28697,"date":"2018-01-04T09:51:08","date_gmt":"2018-01-04T09:51:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dutyfreehunter.com\/blog\/?p=28697"},"modified":"2019-01-23T10:30:16","modified_gmt":"2019-01-23T10:30:16","slug":"highland-park-reveals-dark-light-will-follow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dutyfreehunter.com\/blog\/highland-park-reveals-dark-light-will-follow\/","title":{"rendered":"Highland Park reveals The Dark &#8211; and The Light will follow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Highland Park has launched the first of two single malts inspired by the summer and winter solstices.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>Highland Park The Dark<\/strong> is a 17-year-old single malt matured exclusively in European oak Sherry butts, and forms the first half of the Orkney distillery\u2019s new seasons duo. The expression will be followed by Highland Park The Light in spring 2018.<\/p>\n<p>The pair have been inspired by the effect the seasons have on the maturation of Highland Park, featuring two circles representing the high sun of the summer solstice and low sun of the winter solstice.<\/p>\n<p>Jason R. Craig, brand director for Highland Park, said: \u2018Both editions share the story of the contrasting seasons of our Orkney islands and the resulting intense balance of Highland Park whisky.\u2019<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Dark<\/strong> is presented in a jet black glass bottle with an embossed serpent dragon adorning the front, along with a black oak cradle.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dutyfreehunter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/highdark.jpg\"><img data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dutyfreehunter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/highdark.jpg 679w, https:\/\/www.dutyfreehunter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/highdark-300x215.jpg 300w\" decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.dutyfreehunter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/highdark.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-28698 lazyload\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\" alt=\"highland\"    sizes=\"(max-width: 679px) 100vw, 679px\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-28698\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dutyfreehunter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/highdark.jpg\" alt=\"highland\" width=\"679\" height=\"487\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dutyfreehunter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/highdark.jpg 679w, https:\/\/www.dutyfreehunter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/highdark-300x215.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 679px) 100vw, 679px\" \/><\/noscript><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The whisky \u2013 bottled at 52.9% abv \u2013 is described as exhibiting notes of dried fruits, nuts and spices with hints of smoky peat, and is available now for around \u00a3190 from specialist whisky retailers.<\/p>\n<p>The launch of Highland Park The Dark and The Light follow a major period of rebranding for the distillery, which has seen the release of several expressions in the past nine months, including Magnus, Valkryie, Full Volume, Rebus30, Dragon Legend and the duty-free exclusive\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dutyfreehunter.com\/blog\/highland-park-reveals-global-launch-voyage-raven-duty-free-exclusive\/\">Voyage of the Raven<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>See more\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.highlandparkwhisky.com\/\">https:\/\/www.highlandparkwhisky.com\/<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Highland Park has launched the first of two single malts inspired by the summer and winter solstices.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":28699,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2597,1,7099,7097],"tags":[235,5553,47,832],"class_list":["post-28697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-best-selling-brands-in-duty-free","category-latest-news","category-spirits","category-wines-spirits","tag-highland-park","tag-highland-park-the-dark","tag-malt-whisky","tag-scotch-whisky"],"acf":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dutyfreehunter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dutyfreehunter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dutyfreehunter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dutyfreehunter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dutyfreehunter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dutyfreehunter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28697\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dutyfreehunter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dutyfreehunter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dutyfreehunter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dutyfreehunter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}