Highland Park

Highland Park is one of only a handful of distilleries where turning malt by hand still takes place. Some 20% of the malt used to make Highland Park comes from Orkney. The Orcadian malt is 40 phenol parts per million – if malt solely from Highland Park were used it would share more characteristics with the peatier whiskies of Islay. However research shows that Orkney peat is significantly different from Islay peat. Orkney peat has relatively more carbohydrate derivatives whereas those from Islay have lignin derivatives and the peats of Orkney are younger than those of Islay.