ARRAN 1997 AGED 21 YEARS SHERRY CASK 20TH ANNIVERSARY BOTTLING ~ ISLANDS, SCOTLAND

A limited edition bottling of single malt from the Arran distillery on the eponymous island, celebrating their 21st anniversary! This expression is made using whisky distilled during the first three years of their production, matured in Sherry hogsheads. 5,988 bottles were produced.

The distillery is situated to the East of the village of Lochranza at the North of the island and takes its water from the Loch na Davie. Founded in 1993, by Chivas Brothers’ retiring managing director, Harold Currie, the distillery is the only one on the Isle of Arran since the most recent legally run distillery, ‘Lagg’, was closed in 1837. Mr Currie stylized the buildings with the intention of giving them a much more traditional, classic appearance. During the early stages of building, work was briefly interrupted when a pair of Golden Eagles, nesting in the crags above the distillery, tended to their young. The eagles can be seen, to this day, from the courtyard at the distillery.