Arran
Island / Scotland
- Distillery bottlings 377
- 0000 9
- Adelphi Distillery 1
- A. D. Rattray 4
- Alambic Classique 1
- Berry Bros. & Rudd 5
- Blackadder 1
- Càrn Mòr 5
- CaskAid 1
- Caskstrength.net 1
- Chapter 7 1
- Claxton's 3
- Creative Whisky Company 4
- Douglas Laing 16
- Douglas McGibbon & Co 1
- Douglas of Drumlanrig 1
- Duncan Taylor 3
- Eilan Gillan 1
- First Cask 3
- Gleann Mór 1
- Gordon & MacPhail 11
- House of McCallum 1
- Hunter Laing 6
- Jack Wiebers 1
- Jean Boyer 1
- Kintra Whisky 1
- MacNair's 1
- Malts Of Scotland 1
- Master of Malt 4
- Murray McDavid 2
- North Star 2
- Rest & Be Thankful Whisky Company 3
- Sansibar 1
- Speciality Drinks 1
- Svensk Whiskyförmedling 1
- That Boutique-y Whisky Company 5
- The Maltman (Meadowside Blending) 1
- The Nectar of the Daily Drams 4
- The Scotch Malt Whisky Society (SMWS) 2
- The Ultimate Whisky Company 6
- The Whisky Agency 2
- The Whisky Cask 1
- The Whisky Exchange 1
- The Whisky Warehouse No. 8 1
- Thompson's 4
- Whic.de 1
- Whiskybroker 6
- Whisky.de 2
- William Maxwell & Co. Ltd 1
- WM Cadenhead 2
Douglas McGibbon & Co
Arran 7 year old 1997/2004
The story of Arran
Arran distillery is a whisky distillery in Lochranza, Scotland, the only distillery on the Isle of Arran. In 1994 Arran Distillers was founded by Harold Currie, former director of Chivas with the intention of building a distillery on Arran. During the construction of the distillery, a pair of Golden Eagles built their nest on a cliff near the distillery; since Golden Eagles are a protected species, construction of the distillery was temporarily halted. The distillery opened in 1995.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.