Highland Park 17 Year Old 2007 (cask 5358) - Connoisseurs Choice (Gordon & MacPhail)

Legends collide. Highland Park was founded in 1798 (although officially licensed 1826) and is celebrated for its unique lightly peated heather smoke character. We’ve rightly featured them several times over the years, including at cask strength, but never this old, and never as an independent bottling. G&M aren’t just any indie bottlers either.

Established as a grocers in 1895, apprentice John Urquhart then took the reins as they increasingly specialised in whisky, filling different distilleries’ new make into their own casks, and aging them in their own warehouse. Incredibly, four generations of Urquharts later, that’s how all their bottlings are still created. They recently released the oldest single malt ever, an 85-year-old Glenlivet.

This Highland Park was aged for a still impressive 17 years in a first fill sherry butt, and celebrates 130 years of G&M.