Arran 12-year-old

Name: Arran 12-year-old
Brand: Arran
SKU: 4311
Rating: 81.98 (92 reviews)

Overall rating: 81.98/100
votes: 92

Whiskybase ID: 4311
Category: Single Malt
Distillery: Arran
Bottler: Distillery Bottling
Vintage: 1996
Bottled: 01.10.2008
Stated Age: 12 years old
Casktype: Bourbon and Sherry Casks
Strength: 46.0 % Vol.
Size: 700 ml 750 ml
Bottle code: L 10.08.09
Added on: 30 Oct 2008 9:31 pm

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Whisky Reviews for Arran 12-year-old

11 users have left a review for this whisky and scored it an average of 81.98 points

herby.usa scored this whisky 79 points
08 Mar 2021 3:45 pm

Aroma: Strong, alcoholic appearance, leather, prunes, blueberries, malty sweetness, cedar wood.
Taste: Sweet but spicy start. Dark chocolate. With water it becomes creamy and the sharpness disappears. Instead, there is a seasoning for the sweetness. The dark fruits come back.
Finish: rather short and bitter.
Conclusion: Quite inconspicuous, not really round whisky.
sapecosta scored this whisky 80 points
10 Dec 2016 7:24 am
- Nose
  
  82 82
- Taste
  
  82 82
- Finish
  
  78 78
Andytka3 scored this whisky 78 points
04 Dec 2016 2:20 am
N-
Subtle floral note starts to develop, with inviting caramel and
trademark of hearty sweet malt. Underlay with juicy grapefruit and
distant scents of after burn firework. Much refine compare to the 10YO
but still a bit closed and shy. P- Frizzy tannin, smoked herby candy with a lot of strength for further
development. At this stage a touch too much on oak and lack the
refinement.

F- Medium long, chewy oak extracts, dry out with heavy wood expression.
— at The Whisky Bar, Kuala Lumpur.
- Nose
  
  85 85
- Taste
  
  86 86
- Finish
  
  85 85
tebond968 scored this whisky 80 points
19 Apr 2015 2:43 pm

Arran 12y, 46%, OB 2008
Soft sherry tones in the nose. Caramel, coffee, tobacco. Chocolate. Nuts. Praline. White fruit too, especially pear. Pretty good. Taste: vanilla, apples and wood are almost the most dominant associations. Dry finish with caramel and nuts. Successful (and better) successor of the 10 year old. 80/100 http://onversneden.com/2010/05/14/twee-arrans/
Gronqvist scored this whisky 82 points
16 Feb 2014 1:00 pm
Taste

Sweet with juicy oranges, spicy Sherry, dark chocolate, malt, caramel, nuts, citric acid, apricots, cloves and fresh oak.

Finish

Medium length with light sherry, malt, orange, rose water, candy-like, leather and tobacco. Slightly perfumed.
granella2003 scored this whisky 80 points
15 Sep 2013 9:33 pm

The Isle of Arran Distillery grows up. Just more than 13 years since the first droplets

are passed through the spirit safe in the Lochranza distillery something.

The new

expression of 12 Years Old is bottled at 46% and non

chill-filtered. Not colored. Distillery Manager, James MacTaggart, comments "The

12 Year Old INITIALLY which matured in refill sherry casks and then married for

9 months in first-fill ex-sherry hogsheads Olorosso. The use of Spanish oak

has added a new depth of flavor to the Arran Malt..."
Feusi scored this whisky 83 points
22 Jul 2011 1:30 pm

Fruity sweetness in the nose. Very pleasant, even in the strength with 46v%. The nose smells what the palate tastes. Long lasting and pleasant aftertaste. A sweet sharpness in the nose. The dram is light and tasty in the mouth. Not really convincing but it is not unpleasant.
Lafroy scored this whisky 72 points
03 Apr 2011 8:21 pm
Nose

Citrus notes, sour hints of meadowland, notes of sherry, light acetone, green apples, malted barley, detergent with fruit and citrus notes.

Taste

Pure sweetness, fruit and citrus notes, a little bit of dryness, sea saltiness and rotten pears. Taste relatively well balanced, but it lost its flavor by too much dilution.

Finish

Relatively short, semidry and unfortunately poor.
SilentStill scored this whisky 86 points
29 May 2010 7:01 pm
A good 12yo standard, which should soon be supplemented by a slightly older Arran. You can be curious.

Nose

Quite light and round in the nose, also fruity with many memories of raisins, flowery-floral, in the background also quite nutty notes to hear. The keg discreetly draws attention to itself.

Taste

A pleasant sweetness spreads in the mouth, also this Arran looks very mature for his still young age and you could take him 15 or 18 years to lose weight. As varied and round as the nose.

Finish

Pretty neatly in the length and the barrel comes through again great.
SilentStill scored this whisky 86 points
29 Jan 2010 7:51 pm
A nice standard refill with a good PLV.

Nose

dark fruits, already remarkably vinous, but also flowery-floral, the sherry influence keeps coming through, in addition to a little nut flavor and the wood also gets a pretty pleasant attention

Taste

full body, again is the sherry cask program, but this time a little easier. This Arran shows a remarkable maturity and depth for 12 years of maturation and can therefore certainly convince one or the other, who is rather averse to Sherrycasks. Again beautiful wood effect.

Finish

With good length and here the wood leaves its pleasant traces.

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