Arran 12 Year Old 1996 Old Malt Cask Douglas Laing

Arran Single Cask Sherry 1996

This magnificent bottling of the 1996 distilled single sherry cask Arran is quite rare so when it was brought out at a friend's house it was received rather warmly. And for good reason too. The gorgeous dark nose has a number of complex layers upon which it is built. Chocolate covered raisins dropped in an oaky bowl of chopped plums and drizzled...

Score 92/100

Arran 21 Year Old 1996 The Nectar of the Daily Drams

The Nectar presented this single cask of Arran from 1996 at the most recent edition of the Spirits in the Sky festival, last November. After the maginificent Arran 1996 that Manny and I bottled ourselves for MMM I was very curious to this one. But this is clearly a sherry cask, such a dark liquid! Mouthwatering from the start. Wonderfully sweet...

Score 88/100

Arran 10 Year Old

Arran is a young distillery, founded less than twenty years ago by Harold Currie, a former director at Chivas. Production started in 1995, Euan Mitchell is the manager. Apart from ending up in the Lochranza and Robert Burns blends, all whisky is bottled as a single malt. Let us taste the 10 Year Old first, that has already been joined by a 12 and...

Score 79/100

Arran 12 Year Old 2006 Private Cask for Whisky Shop Zammel

Lucie Stroesser is well known to most whisky lovers. Until recently she was the Brand Ambassador for Arran. One of the last tastings she hosted, before returning to her native France, was in Belgium. Shop owner Jan Vissers asked her to bring some cask samples to select the next private cask for his Whisky Shop Zammel. It’s not his first, mind you....

Score 88/100