Arran 1997 Ambassador's Choice Bottled 2008

Arran 16 Year Old OB

Now Arran founded only in 1995 is a pretty young distillery but they sure make lovely whisky, and as far as I am concerned the older their whisky (so far) the better it does, with the 14 being lovely, and the peacock and Rowan tree brilliant, I had very high expectations from this limited edition of 9,000 bottles. It was aged for 16 years in a...

Score 89/100

Arran Robert Burns Single Malt

According to their website, Arran is the only whisky company authorized by the World Burns Federation to produce a whisky with the _Ploughman Poet_'s name on it. Arran have the authorisation to use Burns's likeness and siganture in recognition of being the closest Distillery to Burns's birthplace of Alloway in Ayrshire. Burns indeed would have...

Score 84/100

Arran Amarone Cask Finish

This whisky spends around 8 years in bourbon casks before being transferred for 9 months to Amarone wine casks. The smell directly from the bottle strongly suggests grapes. When you pour a glass you see that the whisky is a pale but unmistakable pink hue, like strawberry Frutopia. Rest assured that this is the natural colour. It goes very cloudy...

Score 89/100

Arran 9 Year Old 2012 Private Cask Ne Flierefluiter Triple Beer

Okay... an Arran that finished on a quarter cask of the Belgian triple beer Ne Flierefluiter... let's face it: that's unique! And of course this is the brainchilde of our our good friend Jan Vissers of the Single Malt Whisky Shop Zammel, who is both an ambassador of Arran and of the beer Ne Flierefluiter. Funnily enough, not so long ago I tasted...

Score 86/100