Arran, Isle of

Arran, Isle of – one of Scotland’s newest distilleries – and the only one on Arran – began production in 1995. The ten-year-old won lots of friends, as have all the bells-and-whistles ‘expressions’ but the fifteen-year-old is still in the cask as I write.

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