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Highland Park

Highland Park

Our whisky, like our island home, is shaped by a wild climate and a stormy sea, and by the Vikings who settled here over 1,000 years ago, leaving their mark on our people and our culture.

The history of Highland Park has always been closely intertwined with the Vikings of the northern Scottish coast. Through the centuries, from ancient times to the present day, Highland Park has always been a benchmark for producing high-quality single malt Scotch whisky.

From approximately 800 AD to 1468 AD, Orkney was ruled by a succession of Viking Earls, some exceptionally wise, others, it must be said, exceptionally wicked. Their stories are brought vividly to life in the ‘Orkneyinga’ saga – ‘The History of the Earls of Orkney,’ written around 1200 AD, and their influence lives on to this day.

In the early 9th century, as the Viking longships left the coasts of Denmark and Norway to navigate uncharted waters in search of new lands to conquer, they stumbled upon Orkney. And so our small cluster of 70 islands, scattered off the far northern coast of Scotland, were absorbed into a vast Viking kingdom and ruled by a succession of Viking Earls.
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The Legend of Magnus

Of all the Earls of Orkney, Magnus Erlendsson was the most famous. But if his life was full of virtue and wise counsel, his death was the result of jealousy, betrayal and intrigue. Murdered on the orders of his cousin Hakon, soon after his death stories of miraculous healings appeared around the places of his death and burial. Thus, the Legend of Magnus was born. Eventually proclaimed a saint, his remains were finally interred in St Magnus Cathedral, built in his honour some 100 years after his death.
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Under new management

In 1468, King Christian I of Norway and Denmark conveyed our islands to Scotland, as part of his daughter Margaret's dowry for James III, King of Scotland. That act may have ended over 600 years of Viking rule in Orkney, but it didn't end our connection to the Vikings. Our islands had become home to the earliest Viking settlers – and it was a home they never truly left. Today, one in three islanders carries Viking DNA, and we, the people of Orkney, feel a strong connection to our ancestors, sharing their pride, integrity, and fierce independence. At Highland Park, we quite rightly claim our whisky is crafted by the modern-day descendants of Vikings.
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Once a Viking, always a Viking

Our founder, Magnus Eunson, was a direct descendent of the Vikings. Butcher and church officer by day, and smuggler by night, he laid the foundations for his illicit operation at High Park, overlooking Kirkwall – still the home of Highland Park today. We say our distillery was founded in 1798 – but in reality, that’s just the year the authorities finally managed to apprehend Magnus. Whisky was certainly being made here before that! Except for the smuggling operation, very little has changed through the years to the present day. We remain true to the exacting standards of the whisky that landed our founder in front of the authorities, and share his bold and uncompromising approach. In fact, you could say we’re whisky crafted the old way, by a new generation of Vikings.

Highland Single Malt Scotch Whisky with a Viking soul!

Highland Park products

Highland Park Single Cask Bulgaria 1230 0.7
Highland Park Single Cask Bulgaria 1230 0.7
€409,03 EUR
Highland Park 12 YO Viking Honour, 0.7
Highland Park 12 YO Viking Honour, 0.7
€46,01 EUR
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