Arran Machrie Moor single malt scotch whisky, 700ml, 46% alc.

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Located on the beautiful isle of Arran, situated in the Firth of Clyde between Ayr and Campbeltown on Scotland’s west coast, the Lochranza distillery is nestled in a lush landscape. As such, the distillery has become a tourist attraction and receives more than 100,000 visitors per year. Meanwhile, its good reputation among whisky drinkers stems not from its location, but from the range of Arran whiskies the distillery produces and puts out for decent prices. Instead of a rough-and-tumble bravado, the spirit’s constitution rejects its peaty counterpart–almost like a groom with AB positive blood marrying an AB negative bride, without either of them taking the necessary medical precautions when their children are born.

Thoughts: It’s funny, I’ve often heard Arran described as a gentle single malt but that’s never really rang true for me. To me, gentle is something of a bad word and not really what I want from a Scotch whisky. True, the spirit leans towards the fruity, malty side but their higher bottling strength has always produced a depth of flavour that I’ve found very rewarding. In any case, the Lochranza distillers certainly weren’t messing around when they put this bottling together. I’m not sure you could call it balanced, it’s more like a rollercoaster. One minute it’s rich and sherried, the next acrid and smoky, then woody with peppery spice. The 46% bronze-colored 4th, 5th, and 6th Editions of the regular Machrie Moor, as well as Batches 1 and 2 of the Cask Strength Machrie Moor, are all peated to 20 PPM. If you can’t find a cask strength silver offering, or if you would like a regular bronze-colored Machrie Moor at the lower 46% ABV, I recommend avoiding any bottles that were released before the 4th Edition. Tasting Notes If any provision of these Terms is held invalid, the remainder of the Terms shall continue in full force and effect. The Service has been prepared by us solely for information purposes to Members and the Service is based on information we consider reliable and we obtain the contents of the Service from a number of different third party sources (including Contributions), but we do not endorse, support, represent, warrant or guarantee the completeness, truthfulness, accuracy, or reliability of the Services and any information therein.Regardless of whether the Service offers the functionality to contribute, you are solely responsible and liable for any content and information that you create, upload, post, publish, link to, duplicate, transmit, record, display or otherwise make available on the Service or to other Members, such as chat messages, text messages, videos, audio, audio recordings, music, pictures, photographs, text and any other information or materials, whether publicly posted or privately transmitted (“Contributions”). Unless mandatory applicable law provides otherwise, your use of and membership to the Service are exclusively governed by Dutch law. We shall first try to settle any dispute over a dram of whisky. Disputes that cannot be settled over multiple drams of whisky shall be solely submitted to the court of Amsterdam, The Netherlands unless mandatory applicable law provides otherwise.

Founded in 1993, the Lochranza distillery is rather new in town – at least it was so until new distilleries started mushrooming over the last few years. In its relatively short life, the distillery has built and maintained a good reputation among whisky drinkers.To reach the three stones at Machrie 2, you have to come down off a small ridge and pass the derelict Moss Farm. On my last visit, I was buffeted by blustery winds all along the trail but as soon as I stepped inside the circle there was an eerie calm. I could still hear the wind but it seemed somehow distant. I also passed several other tourists on the way but suddenly there was no-one around. All was silent. No voices. No birdsong. Not a bleat from the sheep that scattered the landscape. It was as though I was… somewhere else, with just the sound of the wind, drifting around the stones, but never breaching the circle. I like to think that feeling gives us some understanding of the reverence our Celtic ancestors had for this place. Our Service is an online platform which provides Members with information (e.g. bottle facts, market-indices, market values and prices) on (mostly) whisky and allows Members to add information to the platform. We do not sell, nor does the Service provide any option to buy, any alcoholic products.