Isle of Arran 12 Year Old 1996 Murray McDavid

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 10 Year Old 1998 for The Nectar Belgium

This Arran has matured on a sherry cask and, like the one I just tried, was bottled by The Nectar Belgium. The sherry influence is immediately discernable on the nose, which seems to be sweet and fruity. Apple and dried apricots. Dried flowers, as well. Some mint and toffee. Truckload of honey. Dusty, too. Nice. The dried apricots and honey return...

Score 88/100

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 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