Highland Park St Magnus Festival 2006

One of 500 bottles. St.Magnus festival is Orkney's midsummer celebration of the arts. Founded in 1977 by Orkney's distinguished resident composer Sir Peter Maxwell Davis, the Festival brings a feast of music and other arts to locations throughout the Orkney islands.
The 30th St Magnus Festival celebrated the life and work of Orkney's greatest poet and storyteller George Mackay Brown, whose presence and writing graced the Festival from its inception until George's death in 1996. Highland Park Highland Park Distillery is the most northerly malt whisky distillery in Scotland  and the closest Scottish distillery to the Arctic Circle. Highland Park was established in 1798 and is one of the few Scottish distilleries which continues to malt barley on its own traditional malting floors and to use locally cut peat from Hobbister Moor in its malt kiln. The distillery visitor centre welcomes visitors and offers distillery tours. Heather-honey sweetness; peaty smokiness. Rounded smoky sweetness; full malt delivery. Teasing, heathery, delicious.