Highland Park 1970 35 Years Oak Cask No. 3257 Orkney Single Malt Scotch Whisky 40.3% Vol. from the Duncan Taylor Cask Strength Rare Auld Edition - one of only 173 bottles of an outstanding Orkney Single Malt!
A very rare vintage 1970 35 years-old Highland Park Orkney Island Single Malt Scotch Whisky from the famous Cask Strength Rare Auld Limited Single Cask edition by Duncan Taylor, which was distilled in March 1970 and after over 35 years of maturation in oak cask no. 3257 bottled in July 2005 without the addition of dyes and chill filtration in a batch of only 173 individually hand-numbered bottles at cask strength 40.3% abv. This terrific and well aged 35 years-old Highland Park Orkney Single Cask Scotch Whisky has a intnse amber colour and is a delight due to its maturity and complexity.
The whiskies offered between 2002 and 2011 by Duncan Taylor in the Peerless Cask Strength Rare Auld Edition acquired by Abe Rosenberg since the early 1960s come from the more than 4000 casks of selected premium distilleries, such as Aberlour, Ben Riach, Bowmore, Brora, Bruichladdich, Bunnahabhain, Caperdonich, Clynelish, Dallas Dhu, Dalmore, Glen Grant, Glen Moray, Glenburgie, Glenesk, Glenlivet, Glenlossie, Glenrothes, Inchgower, Knockando, Linlithgow, Laphroaig, Longmorn, Macallan, Macduff, Miltonduff, Old Pulteney, Springbank, Strathisla, Strathmill, Tamdhu and Tomatin and are all bottled as single cask whiskies in limited editions. All single cask whiskies from the legendary Peerless Cask Strength Rare Auld Edition are of exceptional quality, have won several awards and especially the old bottlings from the 1960s and early 1970s of Macallan, Bowmore, Bruichladdich, Bunnahabhain and Highland Park are rare today and achieve considerable prices in the special auctions from Krüger, Bonhams and Christies.
A special piece of whisky history from the famous Orkney distillery Highland Park and outstanding Orkney single malt for connoisseurs, whisky-collectors and lovers of extraordinary and fine old Scotch whiskies.
- Typ: Single Malt Whisky - Independent bottling
- District: Orkney Island
- Vintage: March 1970
- Age: 35 years old
- Year bottled: July 2005
- Cask Wood Type: Oak Cask
- Cask No.: 3257
- Alcohol ABV% 40.3 - Cask Strength
- Bottling Series: Vintage 1970 Cask Strength Rare Auld Limited Single Cask Edition
- Bottle Size 70cl / 700ml
- not coloured / not chill filtered
- Packaging original boxed (box with traces)
- Producer/Importer: Duncan Taylor, King Street, Huntly, Aberdeenshire, AB548HP, Scotland
- Country of Origin Scotland
- limited, one of only 173 bottles - very rare old bottling and special collector s whisky!
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