Orkney single malt Highland Park has announced its oldest release in eight years \u2013 Highland Park 50 Year Old, drawn from two ex-Sherry hogshead casks and priced at US$15,000\/\u00a313,500 a bottle.<\/p>\n
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Only 274 bottles of the new expression will be released, drawn from a pair of ex-Sherry hogsheads laid down in 1964 and \u2018discovered\u2019 at the back of a warehouse in 2008, according to Highland Park owner Edrington.<\/p>\n
Whisky from the two casks was combined and married for a further eight years, along with a \u2018small amount\u2019 of liquid from Highland Park\u2019s 50-year-old release from 2010.<\/p>\n
The whisky was bottled at 42.5% without chill-filtration or artificial colour, with each bottle numbered and signed by Highland Park whisky maker Max McFarlane.<\/p>\n
Highland Park 50 Year Old is described as \u2018sweet at first, with notes of ripe black cherries and muscovado sugar, giving way to dried autumn fruits and warm, toasted wood\u2019.<\/p>\n
The whisky comes in an oak box made by Scottish designer and master craftsman John Galvin, which contains a bottle of Highland Park 50 Year Old, a crystal decanter and a leather book about the whisky\u2019s development.<\/p>\n
Released from September 2018, Highland Park 50 Year Old is priced at US$15,000\/\u00a313,500 a bottle.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Orkney single malt Highland Park has announced its oldest release in eight years \u2013 Highland Park 50 Year Old, drawn from two ex-Sherry hogshead casks […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":35808,"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":[4356,235,6745,832,103],"class_list":["post-35807","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-edrington","tag-highland-park","tag-highland-park-50-year-old","tag-scotch-whisky","tag-whisky"],"acf":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dutyfreehunter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35807","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dutyfreehunter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dutyfreehunter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35807\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dutyfreehunter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dutyfreehunter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dutyfreehunter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dutyfreehunter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}