Highland Park provides new whisky to award-winning Cask Energy collection
— Cask Energy Launch No.3 celebrates the harmonious steadiness of conventional whisky-making and fashionable flavour exploration —
EMBARGOED: LONDON, UK – 01.09.2022: Orkney-based single malt distillery, Highland Park, has added a brand new whisky to its award-winning Cask Energy collection, designed to problem whisky consuming norms. The vary strikes a harmonious steadiness between the normal whisky-making craft, whereas encouraging flavour exploration to swimsuit particular person palates.
Launching as a everlasting addition to the Highland Park vary and created utilizing the normal ‘straight from the cask’ technique, Highland Park Cask Energy Launch No.3 is whisky in its purest kind. No water is added after maturation which delivers a sturdy and intense flavour with a higher depth of end.
Cask Energy Launch No.3 makes use of whisky made with the next proportion of Orkney peated malt leading to a smokier type in comparison with the opposite single malts within the collection. It has been matured predominantly in first-fill sherry seasoned American and European oak casks and a small amount of refill casks. The result’s a rare mixture of contrasting but completely balanced flavours of charred oak, tropical fruits, aniseed, heather honey, vanilla cream, fragrant violet, sponge cake and peat smoke.
Highland Park, Grasp Whisky Maker, Gordon Movement champions this type of whisky as a possibility for flavour discovery. Gordon explains:
“With Cask Energy, you’re at an amazing place to start out exploring the style that most accurately fits your palate by including water, ice or your most well-liked serve. It’s your whisky and must be loved your manner.
“For me, a Cask Energy whisky actually celebrates that steadiness between previous and new and I look ahead to seeing how customers get pleasure from the brand new whisky.”
The Highland Park Cask Energy collection, a status providing inside the portfolio, has been created by bringing collectively dozens of single casks. The whisky is at full energy, straight from the cask, and has solely been gently filtered earlier than bottling.
The releases inside the Cask Energy vary share the identical underlying character however with every batch that includes completely different flavours coming to the fore primarily based on the cask make-up. The ABV may also fluctuate from batch to batch.
Launch No.1 was matured predominantly in sherry seasoned American oak casks of various ages, delivering a harmonious distinction of flavours of toffee, heather, honey, and peat smoke. Launch No. 2 was matured predominantly in sherry seasoned European and American oak casks and a small amount of ex-bourbon casks, producing tastes of pear and almond cake, toasted oak, liquorice, cracked black pepper, fragrant peat.
Highland Park Cask Energy Launch No.3 will turn out to be out there globally from 1st September throughout specialist whisky retailers, together with The Whisky Change, Grasp of Malt, and The Whisky Store, and from the Highland Park on-line store, distillery, and Albert Road retailer in Orkney. The UK RRP is £65.
About Highland Park Cask Energy Launch No.3:
UK RRP: £65
ABV: 64.1%
Quantity: Out there in 70cl and 75cl relying on area
Tasting notes:
Look: Pure deep golden
Style: Flippantly charred oak, honey-glazed lemons, crushed aniseed, ripe mango, cloudy heather honey, whipped vanilla cream, fragrant violet, pink grapefruit zest, wealthy sponge cake, smouldering peat smoke.
Key variations between the whiskies of the Cask Energy collection:
Cask Energy Launch No.3:
Highland Park Cask Energy Launch No.3 has been matured predominantly in first-fill sherry seasoned American and European oak casks and a small amount of refill casks utilizing the next proportion of Orkney peated malt for a smokier flavour profile.
Cask Energy Launch No.2:
Highland Park Cask Energy Launch No.2 was matured predominantly in sherry seasoned European and American oak casks and a small amount of ex-bourbon casks. Which delivered tastes of pear and almond cake, toasted oak, liquorice, cracked black pepper, fragrant peat.
Cask Energy Launch No.1:
Highland Park Cask Energy Launch No.1 was matured predominantly in sherry seasoned American oak casks of various ages which delivered tastes of toffee, heather honey, nutmeg, citrus fruits and fragrant peat smoke.
Latest awards:
- Double Gold on the 2021 San Francisco World Spirits Competitors
- Gold medal on the Scotch Whisky Masters
- Scored 95/100 as a finalist on the 2021 Final Spirits Problem
What’s a cask energy whisky?
Most whiskies are diluted with water previous to bottling to cut back the alcohol-by-volume (ABV) energy, usually to 40% or 43%. Cask energy is a time period used to explain a whisky that has not had water added when it’s bottled after maturation in casks. Highland Park Cask Energy Launch No.1 and Cask Energy Launch No.2 has been created by bringing collectively dozens of single casks. The whisky is at full energy, straight from the cask and has solely been gently filtered previous to bottling.
About Highland Park:
We’ve been crafting our award-winning whisky on the Highland Park Distillery in Kirkwall, Orkney since 1798. Now, 224 years later, we’re one of many ten oldest working distilleries in Scotland. Age, expertise and respect for custom could outline our whisky nevertheless it’s Orkney that differentiates it. One thing magic occurs right here and we name it A Wild Concord.
It’s not simply the affect of the best sherry seasoned oak casks on our whisky at it matures, it’s the salty sea winds that batter Orkney’s rugged coastlines, the intensely floral character of our treeless however heather-rich peat, and the fiercely unbiased Viking spirit that drives us. These are the weather that go, untamed, into our whisky-making to create a wild concord of sweet-smoky flavours that’s, uniquely, Highland Park. www.highlandparkwhisky.com
