Highland Park 1978 | 30 Year Old | Old & RareOld Highland Parks are getting more and more expensive these days. This is a good opportunity to get something much cheaper than the official examples at a similar age. And it's a beautiful dram to boot.

Ever since we have been trying to track down another

which is remarkable for an 18-year-old dram and stronger than the standard filling strength for new casks nowadays

An old bottle of the much-loved and much-missed Bruichladdich 12-year-old - this is the second edition released by then-owners Murray McDavid

It was comprised of 12 casks from 1979 and 1980

Quite a rare bottling nowadays but a great whisky

This is like chewing a very heavily smoked carpet

Overall it is quite sweet

a white port pipe (a large cask with tapering ends used almost exclusively for port) and yielded a generous total of 710 bottles at its sturdy natural cask strength of 56

the Macallan Charles and Diana Royal Marriage was a vatting of two casks distilled respectively in 1961 and 1948 and bottled in 1981

background coastal characters and a some typical touches of lavender and violets

If you've never tried this style this should be a pretty fab place to start

A special edition 10-year-old Benriach 2004