Arran Chianti Wine Cask

Arran Robert Burns Single Malt

This single malt was named after Scotland’s most famous poet. That they are allowed to use both his image and autograph on the label has everything to do with the fact that the Arran distillery is the patron of the World Burns Federation, since 2000. Arran has released both a blend and a single malt under this name. We try the single malt. That...

Score 79/100

Arran 11 Year Old 1999 for The Nectar Belgium

This Arran is 11 years old and was bottled, at cask strength, for the Belgian market in 2010 by The Nectar. The nose reminds me a lot of the Maltman bottling: again a lot of malt and flowers, white fruit. The vanilla is present, albeit a bit less here. Loads of pineapple, too, but the hard candy. Nougat as well. Wood shavings. Nice. It is nice and...

Score 84/100

Arran 17 Year Old 1996 Malts of Scotland

Since Arran was only founded in 1994, this 17 Year Old must be one of the oldest Arran currently available. There are not that many independent bottlings by Arran, but it should not come as a surprise that Malts of Scotland was one of the first to put their hands on a cask. It was bottled in June 2014. It is a distillate from August 1996, so just...

Score 85/100

Arran 18 Year Old

...a distillery that didn't open until you were of legal drinking age is now producing a whisky that is itself of legal drinking age, (at least in the UK that is). So Arran distillery, which opened in 1995 has now released an 18 Year Old malt. I have followed this distillery over the last few years, taking in its 10YO, 14YO and more recently the...

Score 95/100