Arran 12 Year Old Tuscan Wine - 60% 70cl - RARE

Although the Isle of Arran was once a hot-bed of distilling activity, there were no distilleries on the island for the majority of the 19th and 20th centuries.

Isle of Arran Distillers opened their first distillery in 1995, and it quickly became a firm favourite. They bottled its first single malt in 1998, a limited edition 3 year old in a glass decanter.

The distillery also produced a peated single malt called Machrie Moor, however an experimental second distillery on the other side of the island, called Lagg, is now the site of all the company’s peated production.

As of 2019, the distillery was renamed Lochranza, however its single malt brand is still known by the old name, Arran.

This whisky was distilled on 27th March 2008 and aged in single ex-Tuscan Red Wine French Oak cask #110 for 12 years before being bottled on 15th September 2020.

Bottled in September 2020, one of 274 bottles produced for the United Kingdom, bottled exclusively for the UK market.

It is elegant and perfectly balanced with notes of dark red fruits and a hint of sweet spice and toffee.