Arran Fino Sherry Wine Finish

Arran 16 Year Old 1996 Private Cask for Jan Vissers

This Private Cask bottling from Isle of Arran for Jan Vissers, the owner of the Single Malt Whisky Shop in Belgium, was released for his 35th birthday. He is, after all, the proud ambassador for Arran. The cask was selected by the distillery manager, James McTaggart, in person. The nose is very expressive with sherry as the leitmotif: plums,...

Score 90/100

Arran Machrie Moor First Edition (Peated)

Arran not only experimented with loads of wine finishes, they also launched a peated whisky under the name Machrie Moor. This is the name of the peat bog on the west coast of the island, where stone circles and menhirs from the Bronze Age can be found. The dog on the label of this bottle is Brag, which was leached to one of these stones by the...

Score 82/100

Arran 14 Year Old

Was a big fan of the 10 when I had a bottle last year and was able to try the 14 at a festival early last month and was impressed. This is from my own bottle opened just over a week and down to the neck. For those that don't know, Arran is a fairly new distillery, by Scottish terms, and the only one on the Isle of Arran which sits between...

Score 89/100

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