Park Life Uncharted Whisky Co. Highland Single Malt Scotch Whisky 22 Year Old · 2003 Vintage

Here is an insight into the life of an independent bottler… Sometimes fantastic liquids land on the table of small independents. It’s a challenge to navigate - the liquids often come with a caveat such as “this was distilled at this particular fantastic distillery but you can’t use the name on the bottles”. It’s difficult because the liquid is great, the price is great, but the customer wants transparency on what they are drinking - which is fair enough.

So the team has to put on their thinking caps and work out the best way to keep everyone happy. Introducing Park Life, a short series of bottlings from a particularly delicious distiller’s repertoire in the Highland region of Scotland (if you didn’t know, all the islands of Scotland are classed as ‘Highland’ region except Islay). This isn’t from Islay. Or Mull. Or Skye. Or Jura. Or Arran.

This liquid has been aged in a refill sherry wood. It’s not a strong sherry influence at all but the liquid is stunningly complex.

As you may notice, they have created a sister bottling to this at 20 years old from ex-bourbon wood. This is a fantastic dram which is distillery character forward- not wood forward.