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Bottle Details
Arran 20 Year Old The Explorers Series Volume 1 / Brodick Bay
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.
Released in 2018, this was the first entry in Arran distillery's The Explorers Series, which replaced previous Smugglers' Series, a trilogy of annual limited editions which celebrated the island's illicit whisky history. This new range instead celebrated the island's natural charms.
This first expression was titled 'Brodick Bay', with the label depicting the picturesque bay on Arran's east coast. Matured initially in bourbon barrels and sherry hogsheads, Brodick Bay is then finished in Oloroso sherry butts.
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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