COUNTRY/REGION: Scotland/Orkneys.
CATEGORY: Single Malt.
DISTILLERY: Highland Park.
BOTTLER: Blackadder.
BOTTLING SERIE: Orcadian Scotch Malt Whisky.
BOTTLED: 2000
CASK NUMBER: 2000/HO2
ABV: 58.7% Vol.
Named after the famous cliff on the Isle of Orkney, Blackadder's The Old Man of Hoy is a single malt from one of its two distilleries, Highland Park or Scapa.
Blackadder International were founded in 1995 by whisky writers, Robin Tucek and John Lamond, authors of the 1987 publication, The Malt Whisky File: The Essential Guide for the Malt Whisky Connoisseur. The company has gained great affection from whisky enthusiasts for its Raw Cask series, which is deliberately drawn un-filtered from the cask so as to retain all cask sediment along with any natural oils and fats. The company is credited with a key role in the popularisation of cask strength whiskies since its inception.
