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Bottle Details
This is the 2015 and first release in the highly acclaimed Arran Smugglers' Series. The collection was a nod to the shady history of Arran's illicit distilling back during the 18th and 19th centuries when the island was a producer of black market whisky. Presented in a book style package to hide the goods.
The whisky itself represents the type of dram the illicit producers would create. It is a mixture of port pipes and sherry hogsheads containing non-peated spirit and oak barrels containing peated spirit.
Arran Smugglers' Series Volume 1 / The Illict Stills
A very cool nod to the shady history of Arran's distilling. Back during the 18th and 19th century the island was a producer of illicit whisky. Presented in a book style package to hide the goods.
The whisky itself is a combination of the following:
Arran Single Malt - Un Peated Stock Matured in 600L Port Pipes.
Arran Single Malt - Un Peated Stock Matured in 250L Sherry Hogsheads.
Arran Single Malt - Un Peated Stock Matured in 200L Barrels.
Arran Single Malt - 50ppm Peated Stock Matured in 200L Barrels.
Arran Single Malt - 14ppm Peated Stock Matured in 200L Barrels.
One of 8,700 bottles.
Lochranza
One of two malt whisky distilleries owned by Isle of Arran Distillers, Lochranza was the first to be opened in 1995. The distillery's flagship single malt brand is the Arran label and although it now only distils a non-peated whisky, it has historically produced peated single malt as well.
Arran
The flagship single malt brand of the Lochranza distillery on Arran. Originally launched as The Arran Malt in 1998, it was renamed simply as Arran in 2019. Although its core range has always been a non-peated whisky, some occasional limited releases of peated single malt have also been produced.
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Whether you set a maximum bid or manually place a single bid, the system will automatically increase your bid according to the following increments outlined in the table below.
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