Arran 3 Year Old First Bottling

Arran Amarone Cask Finish

I like my wines. Maybe not as much as single malts but I'm quite happy swirling a glass or two of red the odd evening. And so the prospect of trying out a single malt aged in Amarone wine casks was quite an exciting prospect. This no age-statement, deeply colored offering from Arran has possibly one of the sweetest noses I've ever come across (so...

Score 88/100

Arran 21 Year Old Explorer Series 3 Kildonan & Pladda Island

In 2018, Arran launched the so-called Explorer Series, bottling malts aged 20 to 23 years old and offering them in a fun metal box depicting an interesting spot on Arran. It started with the Brodick Bay in 2018, followed by the Lochranza Castle in 2018, the Kildonan & Pladda Island in 2020 and the Drumadoon Point in 2021. I expect that another...

Score 87/100

Arran 20 Year Old 1996 VIS meets SWS

When we launched our Arran 20 Year Old 1996 for MMM, we were the first to bottle an Arran single cask at that age and at cask strength, something we are very proud of. Much later we found out that we almost missed that honor, if not for problems with labelling and importing this particular release from Henk Vis. He was the owner of a cask that he...

Score 87/100

Arran Vintage 1966 Taste Still Fixin Wood Finish

This Arran, bottled by the Belgian Taste Still, got a finish on a Burgundy wine cask. Fixin is a village in the Côtes de Nuit, a wine region that runs from Beaune to Dijon. They are known for their fantastic, and high price demanding, red wines. But that does not guarantee that the whisky is any good, as I was about to find out. The nose is hot...

Score 70/100