Highland Park are one of only a handful of Distilleries to turn Malt by hand, every eight hours, seven days a week, a laborious yet essential process which infuses the aromatic smokiness which makes Highland Park so distinctive. Obsessed with the quality of casks employed for maturation, it all begins with the cutting of oak staves at precisely 45°, sealing in the Spirit, exactly how Orkney's Viking ancestors made their longships watertight! Sent to to Spain for a term of Oloroso Sherry, before repatriation to Orkney to be filled with Highland Malt for extended age.