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Arran 10 Year Old 2007 Small Batch Rum Finish for The Nectar

For my 85th meeting with Arran I chose this Small Batch Rum Finish from 2018 of which 1500 bottles were filled especially for importer The Nectar from Belgium. It has a nice golden color and is bottled at the friendly drinking strength of 46%. Nice summery nose on baked apples with cinnamon and almonds. Relatively light and simple, but very...

Score 85/100

Arran Amarone Cask Finish

Tony writes: This is a second edition of the very well received Arran Amarone finish which Jim Murray gave a score of 96 for in 2010. This is in our new Winter Warmers pack of big christmassy whiskies. Amarone della Valpolicella is an Italian full bodied dry red wine and this is one of many types of finish that Arran have tried. First thing to...

Score 90/100

Arran 17 Year Old 1996 Malts of Scotland

Boy, the kids at Malts of Scotland really got it into their heads to bottle new (to them) stuff this time around. After the Teaninich and Fettercairn, they now also launch there very first malt from the Isle of Arran. That means they acquired the cask rather early, it is from 1996. Let us not forget that Arran was founded only in 1994 and...

Score 84/100

Arran Machrie Moor Cask Strength

Like many distilleries, Arran too has a peated version, that was dubbed Machrie Moor, named after the peat fields on the island. The label shows Bran, a dog that – as legend would have it – was chained to the standing stones near that field by the warrior Fingal. The malt that Arran used for the Machrie Moor is peated to 14ppm. That’s quite light....

Score 84/100