Arran Single Malt
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| Region: Island | |
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| Location | Lochranza, Isle of Arran |
| Owner | Isle of Arran Distillers Ltd |
| Founded | 1995 |
| Status | Operational |
| Water source | Loch na Davie |
| Number of stills | 1 x wash still and 1 x spirit still |
| Capacity | 750,000 Litres litres/per annum |
| Arran | |
| Type | Single malt |
| Age(s) | 10 Years, 12 Years, 14 Years |
| Cask type(s) | American White Oak, Ex-Bourbon Casks (Main) Ex Sherry Casks |
| ABV | 46% |
| Lochranza Blended Scotch Whisky, Robert Burns Single Malt and Blended Whisky | |
| Type | Blended scotch |
Arran Single Malt is a Single Malt Scotch whisky distilled by the Arran Distillery, Lochranza, Scotland, the only distillery on the Isle of Arran. Arran Distillery was founded in 1995 and is the first legal distillery built on the Isle of Arran in over 150 years. The water for the malt is from Loch na Davie.
The distillery of the Isle of Arran was founded by Harold Currie, former director of Chivas. There used to be about fifty distilleries on the island, but most of them were "moonlight" or illegal distilleries. The most recent legally founded distillery on Arran, called 'Lagg', closed in 1837.
Until recently a proportion of the casks were stored in the warehouses of Springbank, due to a lack of room in the distillery, and the legal impossibility of extending the current warehouses at the Arran distillery. However, the distillery now has a revolutionary storage warehouse, on site, that allows easier access to barrels. The distillery offers a cask purchase scheme which offers private individuals the opportunity to own their own cask of whisky, which can be stored on site at the distillery.
The Arran Distillery is a patron of the World Burns Federation and as such has created a Robert Burns Single Malt and Robert Burns Blended Whisky in honour of Scotland's National Poet. They are the only whisky distillery to be able to use the image and signature of Robert Burns on their packaging.
The whisky of Arran is mostly used to produce their Single Malt Whisky, but a small proportion also goes into the production of their range of blended whiskies : Lochranza Blend, Robert Burns Blend and Arran Gold Single Malt Whisky Cream Liqueur.
The Arran Distillery is now owned by a group of private shareholders and the Managing Director is Euan Mitchell. 2010 saw the release of a 15th Anniversary bottling on the occasion of the Distillery Open Day on 3 July. Autumn 2010 also saw the release of the first official 14 year-old to be released by the Distillery. The first peated Arran Single Malt (called Machrie Moor) is now available since December 8, 2010.
[edit] See also
[edit] External links
- www.arranwhisky.com Official Webpage
- Single malt whisky site; distillery info, bottle shots and nosing and tasting notes.
- www.arrancollector.de Website of Jens Steinert, a German collector of Arran Single Malt Whisky
Coordinates: 55°41′58.12″N 5°16′48.63″W / 55.6994778°N 5.280175°W
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