Highland Park - 23 Year Old 1979 Murray McDavid

Lot Id: 331296

Highland Park - 23 Year Old 1979 Murray McDavid

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Founded by 3 gentleman in 1996, Mark Reynier, Simon Coughlin, and Gordon Wright. Murray McDavid would be most famous for the purchasing of Bruichladdich on the 19 December 2000 which lay dormant at the time. Murray McDavid was bought over by Aces in 2013 but that wasn’t the end for the company, their legacy continued by bottling exceptional single malts without chill-filtering or adding colour. They really ACEd this market, a term coined referring to “Additional Cask Enhancement” which involved additional finishing of casks. The large majority of the whisky community attribute the success of both Bruichladdich and Murray McDavid to a gentleman, James McEwan who has more than 50 years of experience in the whisky industry. He lead from the front and was distillery and production manager.

Highland Park is known for being the most Northern Scotch Whisky Distillery in the world. It is situated on the outskirts of the biggest town in Orkney 58.9847°N. It is so far North it is almost in the Arctic circle. To give you an idea, it is on the same latitude as Anchorage, Alaska. The distillery has been distilling in the same site since 1798 where the founder, Magnus Eunson’s, original illicit still was at High Park. They smoke their own barley from over 4,000 year old peat which has been cut from the Hobbister Moor only seven miles from the distillery.

This Highland Park was matured for 23 years from 1979 and bottled at 46% by Murray McDavid. 

 

  • Distillery: Highland Park Whisky for auction
  • Bottler: Murray McDavid
  • Country: Scotland
  • Region: Islands
  • Size: 70cl
  • Type: Single Malt Whisky
  • Age: 23 Year Old
  • Strength (%): 46%
  • Distillery Status: Operational
  • Lot Type: Full Size
  • Shipping Weight: 2.00 KG

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