Edrington Group choose STO for special edition Highland Park

Stölzle Flaconnage UK were asked by the Edrington Group to develop a new bottle for limited release editions of Highland Park, their award-winning single malt whisky.

Highland Park produce some of the world’s best single malt whiskies. Highland Park 18 Year Old has twice been voted ‘The Best Spirit in the World’ by F Paul Pacult, the noted American spirits reviewer, and the Highland Park 21 Year Old received the title of ‘World’s Best Single Malt’ from the World Whiskies Awards 2009. STO-Flaconnage worked with the Edrington Group New Product Development Team to produce the container for the highly acclaimed 40 Year Old Highland Park. Now a selected, limited release of the 1964 and 1968 whiskies is to take place this summer. To help develop another bottle that would reflect the special quality of its contents was a challenge that STO-Flaconnage Prestige Spirits accepted with enthusiasm.

The result is a bottle with a timeless outline suggestive of the ancient runic imagery that are part of the culture of the Orkney islands where Highland Park has been distilled for over two hundred years. The bottle has been produced in black feeder colour to a high visual standard. As a final touch, incorporated into it as part of the production process is a solid metal badge depicting the Highland Park imagery.

Alongside the bottle for these aged vintages, STO-Flaconnage has also developed one in the style of the late nineteenth century to complement the Earl Magnus Highland Park Limited Edition. Traditional imagery was again drawn upon. The bottle, shaped with a proud shoulder plinth, has been produced in a special dark, feuille mort feeder colour glass that features an aged surface effect.

‘We consider our involvement in the production of bottles such as these, designed to contain such rare contents, is a compliment of highest order,’ said Neil Robson, Director of Prestige Spirits. ‘The whole process has been a satisfying one for us, as has the final result.’

In addition to Prestige Spirits, Stölzle Flaconnage in West Yorkshire also specialises in Prestige Beauty for Perfumery and Personal Care. The company is a member of the international Stölzle Glass Group (STO) with headquarters in Austria.