Sold outMay 2023In short · Isle of Arran (Islands), 8 years.
““Wow, it is just like having a 'sex on Malibu Beach'” – a cocktail of vodka, peach schnapps, coconut rum, orange and cranberry juice, all garnished with a cherry.…”Extract · full tasting notes at SMWS
SMWS 121.104 is a single cask of Isle of Arran, in the Islands region, 8 years old, bottled at 62.1%, released in the May 2023 Outturn. Every Society bottle numbered 121.x is from Isle of Arran.
Specs, price and tasting-note extract from the SMWS. Full notes on smws.com.
At Lochranza, in the mountainous north of Arran, Harold Currie, a former managing director in the Scotch industry, set out in 1995 to bring legal distilling back to an island once thick with it. The Isle of Arran distillery he built has stayed proudly independent ever since. Golden eagles wheel over the stills and the water comes off the hills above. The malt is clean, fruity and approachable, an island whisky without heavy peat. Demand outgrew the site, and in 2019 a second distillery, Lagg, opened in the south to make the peated style, but Lochranza remains the warm, fruity heart of Arran.