HIGHLAND PARK MASTER WHISKY MAKER – GORDON MOTION – RETIRES AFTER 27 YEARS
MARC WATSON APPOINTED NEW MASTER WHISKY MAKER
After 27 years of spearheading the innovation of Highland Park’s award-winning whisky portfolio, Gordon Movement retires as Grasp Whisky Maker
To have fun his long-standing legacy, Highland Park is releasing Sherry Skies – a restricted version 19-year-old single malt whisky that seamlessly blends his distinctive whisky-making experience together with his love of Highland Park’s attribute sherried flavours
Entering into the place as the newest inventive innovator to proceed Highland Park’s 227-year legacy is Marc Watson, former Distillery Supervisor of the yr
London UK – Edrington has introduced that after 27 years of spearheading the innovation of Highland Park, Gordon Movement retires as Grasp Whisky Maker. Marc Watson will probably be taking up the function for the award-winning Single Malt Scotch whisky distillery, based in Kirkwall, Orkney in 1798.
Gordon Movement commented: “I need to thank Highland Park for being my dwelling for shut to a few a long time. As I replicate on these, there have been some actually particular moments. From deciding on 10 distinctive casks from 1968 to create landmark releases like our 56-year-old, by means of to enjoying a pivotal function within the progress of our single malt portfolio, along with introducing our first Cask Power and World Journey Retail releases to the world.
“It’s been an awesome privilege and even higher enjoyable to have been a custodian of this actually nice single malt whisky.
“I couldn’t ask for a greater successor than Marc Watson to take Highland Park into the long run. His consideration to element, deep information and love of whisky and distilling, collectively together with his inventive aptitude, makes him the best particular person to turn into Highland Park’s subsequent Grasp Whisky Maker.”
Marc Watson, the newly appointed Grasp Whisky Maker, graduated from Heriot-Watt with a Grasp’s diploma in Brewing and Distilling, and brings with him over 11 years of business expertise, together with most lately holding the function as Grasp Blender for The Well-known Grouse and Bare Malt since 2023. Previous to this, Marc was additionally recognised with the celebrated Icons of Whisky Distillery Supervisor of the Yr award.
A passionate explorer of flavour, he has been working alongside Gordon for the previous 6 months to immerse himself in Highland Park’s distinctive aged whisky shares and its distinctively distinctive flavour profile.
Marc Watson commented: “I’ve at all times been an enormous fan of Highland Park and its completely different by nature strategy to whisky and to life and have an enormous admiration for my predecessors who’ve created the legacy that makes it such a particular single malt Scotch Whisky. I’m extremely excited to construct on the award-winning high quality that Gordon has nurtured all through his tenure, while additionally with the ability to carry my very own creativity.”
Sherry Skies: The Farewell Whisky From Gordon Movement
In a farewell to Gordon Movement, Highland Park is releasing a limited-edition whisky to honour his legacy.
Sherry Skies is a 19-Yr-Outdated whisky that celebrates Highland Park’s distinctive character and the mix of science and intuition that Gordon has put into each bottle of Highland Park Single Malt Whisky throughout his tenure.
The whisky’s depth of sherried sweetness displays Highland Park’s obsession with fine-tuning each element of the casks that contribute to the flavour of its award-winning whisky. Created from six sherry seasoned casks – crafted and seasoned for Highland Park in Jerez – and three bourbon casks, Sherry Skies’ deep sherry affect brings notes of intense jammy dried fruit and candy tannic spices, completely balanced with the delicate trace of fragrant smoke of Orkney heathered peat.
Gordon Movement continues: “I’ve sampled 100,000s of casks throughout my 27-year profession, and the 9 chosen for Sherry Skies ship a singular depth of flavour – singing with the sherry sweetness that I’ve beloved exploring and perfecting, balanced with the delicate trace of fragrant smoke of our Orkney heathered peat. I hope this farewell dram will give individuals as a lot pleasure savouring it, as I had creating it.”
Restricted bottles of Highland Park Sherry Skies can be found to buy on the Highland Park Distillery and Albert Road retailer and by way of the model web site. For additional data go to: www.highlandparkwhisky.com
About Highland Park Sherry Skies:
- RRP: £265
- Just one,200 bottles out there
- ABV – 48.8%
Gordon Movement’s Sherry Skies Tasting Notes:
Notes – Fruity and Spicy
- Toasted oak
- Poached pear
- Clove
- Orange peel
- Delicate smoke
The Flavour
Intensely fruity however splendidly easy. Toasted oak and aromatic vanilla on the nostril, resulting in candy, caramelised fruit, spice and citrus peel on the palate. The end is the place the spicy notes of anise, cinnamon come to the fore, alongside a lingering trace of heathered peat smoke.
About Highland Park:
Highland Park has been distilled on the identical web site at Kirkwall, Orkney since 1798. Orkney has at all times been a world aside. Sitting within the North Sea, at roughly the identical latitude because the southern tip of Greenland, it’s a spot outlined not simply by its pure magnificence, but in addition the inventive, resourceful spirit of the individuals who reside there.
At Highland Park, all the things stems from this distinctive atmosphere and group. Within the greater than 200 years for the reason that distillery was based, removed from the mainland, and the mainstream, Highland Park continues to craft single malt whisky, in response to its personal guidelines.
Its distinctive smoky-sweet flavour comes from the distinctive island nature of Orkney, with lengthy days of daylight and wind so sturdy, that few bushes develop. As an alternative, heather traces the panorama, which supplies Highland Park its distinctive Orkney heathered peat.
For extra data, please go to: www.highlandparkwhisky.com
About Edrington UK
Edrington UK is a part of the worldwide Edrington household and is chargeable for the UK gross sales, advertising and distribution of ultra-premium and main manufacturers together with The Macallan, Highland Park, The Glenrothes and Brugal rum.
