It’s red deer and grey seals and golden eagles and basking sharks and a Mars Bar for whoever spotted the most of them (which my sister still owes me. Palate – A robust dram with the typical orchard fruits of Arran coming to the fore over a layer of toasted brioche and red berries. That’s not just some romantic fluff like the marketing myths strung together in Edrington’s fairytale factory. Image from The Whisky Exchange along with the commission link that goes towards ensuring Adam remains endowed with Arran whisky.

Full disclosure: I have purchased bottles of both whiskies for this review and shared them with other members of my whisky group. Each and every Member must be of legal drinking age in its country of residence to be allowed to use the Service. Something perhaps that meant something long ago, before you obsessed over the latest Cadenhead’s outturn, or hollered on Twitter about provenance or bickered about craft vs establishment.We have the right to ask you to provide proof of your age and/or to provide further identification to prevent underage usage and/or for any other legal or legitimate purpose. The Lagg distillery was just opened and will mainly produce peated malt while Lochranza distillery will focus on its unpeated output. Never mind what I say, or what Mark says, or what Jason says, or what the people actually paid to do this stuff say.

Whether that’s for the better or not depends on personal tastes and predilections – ‘Über Geschmack lässt sich nicht streiten. This cookie is set by Rubicon Project to control synchronization of user identification and exchange of user data between various ad services.The shortbread and the chamomile tea of the Arran 10 have been supplanted by the smoke and ashes, and I’m not entirely sure what to make of the Machrie Moor’s rubbery note. Like the 10-year-old Machrie Moor (I tried the following bottling WB204190 at the same time) a very independent and indispensable bottling in the Arran portfolio. Further, you shall not circumvent, remove, alter, deactivate, degrade or thwart any of the content protections, decompile, reverse engineer or disassemble the Service and any software related to or used in or by the Service. To terminate your account, login to your account, go to the “settings page”, and follow the termination instructions]. The 10 year old bottling is the distillery’s flagship offering and was their first aged released back in 2006 (although it was subject to a new recipe in 2019).

As Lagg is going to bottle their whiskies under the ‘Lagg’ name, it’s likely Machrie Moor will be exiting the scene in the near future.

To this end, I’ll taste the Arran 10 and the Machrie Moor 10 in comparison and explore their similarities and differences. Named after one of the island’s peat bogs, this single malt is full of smoke and grassy notes, complemented by vanilla, citrus and pineapple. Anyhow, these thoughts have been bouncing about my brain because a few weeks ago I was on Arran, doing my level best to pretend that the technological revolution never took place.

Any new functionalities, tools and features shall be part of and governed by the Terms from the moment they are launched and/or available.Yet, as far as I’m concerned, I’d rather see distilleries getting back to developing a distinct profile for their whisky and spending their efforts on meticulously crafting and maturing a whisky of their own instead of just another range of ‘smooth and mellow’ or ‘smoky and bold’ versions of themselves. Despite the fact that I have moaned about this before and about the exact same Israeli importer, I will continue to complain until they do something about it.