Highland Park Distillery

[purplecat]

I'm so behind on posting summer holiday pictures. However I assume no one minds much...

Anyway no Scottish holiday would be complete without a visit to a distillery. We went for a tour and tasting of Highland Park, though we had rather more drivers and teenagers in the party than drinkers and ended up taking away a lot of small tasting bottles with us.



This is the malt floor where the barley is spread out and turned by hand for malting. No barley there when we went to see and it wasn't entirely clear to me how much of the barley that goes into Highland Park was actually hand turned on this malt floor.

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Apparently the Porteus company, makers of this Malt Mill have long been out of business having unfortunately made their products so well that they rarely break down. As far as I can gather you are now in trouble if you are a distillery where the malt mill has stopped working, since no one makes them any more.


And here is some actual whiskey, stored in a locked customs warehouse but with a window where we could look in to see it.


I found I rather liked Highland Park. Not as peaty as the whiskey's I normally drink but it slips down easier as a result.

Comments

[nanila]

Ooh, nice photos. I like Highland Park very much.

[purplecat]

Thanks!