Sold outJan 2025In short · Isle of Arran (Islands), 8 years.
“Sesame seeds cascaded from the clouds before our eyes, chasing lemon sherbet candies towards a bouquet of hay and chamomile in a bizarre game of capture the flag.…”Extract · full tasting notes at SMWS
SMWS 121.111 is a single cask of Isle of Arran, in the Islands region, 8 years old, bottled at 62.1%, released in the Jan 2025 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.