Arran 18-year-old

Overall rating: 85.90/100
votes: 416

Category: Single Malt
Distillery: Arran
Bottler: Distillery Bottling
Bottled: 16.02.2016
Stated Age: 18 years old
Casktype: Ex-Sherry & Ex-Bourbon Casks
Strength: 46.0 % Vol.
Size: 700 ml 700 ml
Bottle code: L16 02 16
Barcode: 5060044483073
Added on: 08 Mar 2016 10:10 am by mcfloster

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Whisky Reviews for Arran 18-year-old

58 users have left a review for this whisky and scored it an average of 85.90 points

hs305 scored this whisky 86 points
19 Feb 2019 10:57 pm
[February, 2019] A quick review of a sample...

...of a Traditional Scotch style dram with a fine nose, an average taste but a rather bitter ending. Nevertheless, it is easy drinkable.

Nose

88 88

The colour is yellow gold and the nose offers a fine old stylish Traditional Scotch profile with a balanced mix of distillate- and wood-driven aromas. There are fruity, bready (sourdough), spicy, toffee and chalky-mineral aromas without any off-note. Really nice to sniff for a standard range 18-years old...

Taste

87 87

The taste is spicy-sweet with lots of peppers, chili, vanilla and toffee-marzipan flavours. The fruits and barley sugars are more shy here but they grow stronger upon chewing - as does the sourdough flavour. Water releases more grassy-floral notes both in the nose and taste but I like the neat dram better, to be honest.

Finish

84 84

The dram arrives warming and a little coating on the palate with a minor bitter-drying feeling (cold metals). The finish is long and adds more bitter herbal-grassy flavours that provide a rather drying-astringent ending. Actually, this is not balanced anymore and you really have to like such bitter notes to enjoy the finish.
Pollenflug scored this whisky 87 points
29 Jan 2018 10:12 pm
Conclusion and pictures on: https://tomtrinkt.de

Nose

The Arran begins with a beautiful interplay of sweet fruits and roasted cereal notes. The alcohol (46%) is well integrated and hardly noticeable. Light and red fruits form the sweet foundation: apricots, juicy oranges, melons, red apples, raspberries and grapes are present. Floral notes, plenty of vanilla, honey and beautiful oak aromas give the nose a nice draft. The different aromas of bourbon and sherry barrels mix together to create a harmonious composition.

Taste

Slightly oily and powerful, the adult Arran occurs: Sweet-sour fruit notes are provided with an additional Pfeffrigkeit on the tip of the tongue. The sherry notes I take in the taste a little more intense: blood oranges, peaches, cherries and raspberries mingle with light fruits, honey, roasted aromas, marzipan and strong caramel and milk chocolate notes. The oak notes are spicy in the end and already leave a delicate bitterness on the palate. A slight feeling of sharpness occurs, which bothers me a little. Maybe it's the infamous form of the day? Adding a few drops of water makes the malt more balanced and harmonious.

Finish

Medium long, sweet-spicy and warm. With a delicate pinch of pepper on the sparkling tongue tip, the finish starts. The vanilla sweetness and bright fruits as well as sherry notes gradually fade. Cereals, honey, milk chocolate, roasted aromas and spicy notes of the oak finish the Arran. The palate now has a subtle bitterness and a gentle dryness.
mosesumike scored this whisky 88 points
27 Mar 2018 9:12 pm

Highly recommended from Ralfy ... 90 points https://youtu.be/ey3ppYqXDac—————————————————————

Best of islands 2018

http://www.worldwhiskiesawards.com/winner/whisky/2018/best-scotch-islands-non-islay-single-malt-world-whiskies-awards-2018
Dottore scored this whisky 86 points
25 May 2017 8:31 pm
A beautiful Arran to reasonable PLV. The 46% do it well, less would be bland. The nose is the highlight. 86 points

Nose

The classic Arrannase that I like so much: sweet, by no means fermented sherry, juicy oranges, fruity beer, honey and butter. Blossoming alpine meadows in early summer.

Taste

Sweet milk chocolate at the beginning, subtle fruit acidity. Peaches. Creamy mouthfeel. Vanilla. Slowly get bitter. Subtle wood spice

Finish

Sweet, then slowly bitter. Overall, rather reserved, in the mouth it remains slightly dry with a little spicy-sour ginger.
Marko_I did not rate this whisky
24 May 2017 12:00 am
Delicious, tasty, liked to drink. For 90 ¬ I found it but totally overpriced, with meanwhile 70-75, he comes slowly in fair areas, but for ~ 50 ¬ I get similar attractive tasty-drinkable whisky whisky (also similar age), because I would not resort to this. And somehow I have the feeling that Arran is not necessarily made for aging, as it is more arbitrary, is absorbed in the mass of Speysider.

Nose

Grainy-sweet, crumble cake, vanilla, a little sweet applesauce .... after a while a touch of wine gum and aromatic-dry cedar wood

Taste

Chocolate, brown sugar (a bit burned on), a bit of heat ... and while chewing, I always have "bouts" of wine gum in between

Finish

medium to long, gentle, warm spiciness, dark chocolate, coffee, a hint of wine gum
schengel10 scored this whisky 88 points
14 Mar 2019 1:59 pm
Great, intense, very good Arran!
[Color] honey;

Nose

Bourbon flavors (vanilla, caramel), spices, ripe apples, oak;

Taste

aromatic powerful onset, oily, fruity, peach, orange, cinnamon, spices, pepper, oak, caramel, honey, vanilla, complex;

Finish

medium length, fruity, slightly spicy; in the end orange and (bitter) oak;
Totoro scored this whisky 86 points
22 Jan 2019 12:23 am

Really good eighteen-year-old and a nice culmination point (at least until recently, when the new 21 was introduced) for the Arran core range. Fresh and mature at the same time, with just the right amount of oak at the death. The only thing that keeps me from scoring it higher is the unsubtle, rubbery taste of the "modern" and less-than-glorious sherry casks that have been involved here.
LDB scored this whisky 86 points
25 Sep 2018 7:37 pm
For the age initially surprisingly impetuous, but especially in the finish to score.

Nose

Spicy spicy, rather unripe pineapple, a bit of mango juice, delicious wild honey notes with fine coastal flavors

Taste

Smoother than the nose suggests, fruit and honey flavors now dominate, though not sweet, but rather tart and tart.

Finish

Fine tingling as after champagne remains in the palate, relatively dry-astringent, but in the end comes again pineapple with a little lemon and a touch of salt - that's delicious.
HammerHead scored this whisky 87 points
15 Sep 2018 9:03 pm
Great whisky, well presented and at a fair price level. Thumbs up for Arran, no flaws except maybe a little bit too much wood in the finish.

Nose

89 89

Fruity with both the bourbon and sherry casks shining through. Honey, maple syrup, vanilla, fresh fruits, apples, peach and apricots, also some oranges and pineapple, a cookie note, almonds.

Taste

87 87

Dried fruit, honey, raisins, fruitcake, apricots, oranges, grapefruit, a bit oily and clear wood bitters, quite spicy (clove).

Finish

86 86

Medium length: honey and vanilla with a nice wood note, some citrus, nutmeg and quite some heavy oakwood which fades away into a subtle mustiness.
lachaineduwhisky did not rate this whisky
22 Jun 2018 10:34 am
Pretty forgettable. Enthusiasm Nose: 2/5 Palate: 3/5 Final: 3/5 Whisky n ° 1756

Nose

Light fruity, sherry. Some woody notes. Not very opulent, very ordinary.

Taste

Honest on the corpulence in the mouth. Spices slightly bitter, not very fruity.

Finish

As late as late fruit to accompany the spices in the final.

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