Scapa 10 Years Old

This official Scapa single malt, a 10 year old and bottled at 48%. Scapa was founded in 1885 by Macfarlane and Townsend on Orkney's Mainland by Scapa Flow, and it remains one of only two distilleries on Orkney. Unusually for an island malt, Scapa is wholly unpeated, soft and honeyed where its neighbours are smoky.

The spirit was run through the only Lomond still left in Scotch and a traditional spirit still, to build a soft, unpeated island character. It was matured in refill ex-Bourbon oak, lending honey and vanilla. At this age the spirit is fresh and creamy, the orchard fruit and honey bright. Heavy copper contact in the Lomond still strips harsher notes, leaving a clean, oily and fruity spirit. Scapa sits a mile from Highland Park, yet makes a wholly unpeated, honeyed malt. Its rare Lomond wash still, plates removed, gives a creamy, oily spirit through heavy copper contact. The distillery looks out over Scapa Flow, the great anchorage of two world wars.

At a natural 48% it is full and oily. Honey, melon and a maritime lift meet soft vanilla and cream from the cask. Beneath it run honey, pear and a soft spice. It closes long, honeyed and creamy. This is the honeyed island malt of Orkney.