Scapa 21 Year Old Single Malt Scotch comes from the Scapa distillery on Orkney, founded in 1885 on the shore of Scapa Flow and one of the two northernmost distilleries in Scotland. Scapa runs an unusual Lomond wash still that produces a heavier, fruitier spirit, and its whisky is unpeated, so the island character shows up as sea air and heather rather than smoke.
Twenty-one years in first-fill American oak give this bottling a deep honeyed weight: heather honey, baked orchard fruit and vanilla on the nose, then toffee, dried apricot, gentle oak spice and a faint saline edge on the palate. The finish is long, warming and softly sweet. Pour it neat in a Glencairn and give it a few minutes in the glass; a drop of water opens the fruit.
Scapa releases very little at this age, and older Orkney malt of this style is hard to find. If you enjoy Highland Park without the peat, or older Speyside malts matured in bourbon wood, this is a natural next bottle.
Ships to most US states. Adult-signature required at delivery.
