Arran

Tasting notes: The Arran Machrie Moor, the Peated Arran Malt, 2nd Edition, opens with a delightful old winey smell, as if you finally got around to opening that bottle of [...]

Tasting notes: The Arran Smugglers’ Series Volume 2, The High Seas, opens…wow! This is like Pandora’s box’s inverse—Arodnap’s xob?—where everything great comes [...]

Tasting notes: The nose opens with a great old winey smell that quickly evolves into notes of a swimming pool used for making large batches of crabapple cider, at the edges [...]

Tasting notes: This attractively-packaged whisky calls out for careful study.  I hand over my library card, hold the volume close to my chest, and then return to my [...]

     The Arran Devil’s Punchbowl III, the third in the series, is kind of The Return of the Jedi without the Ewoks. Meaning, the first two entries in the [...]

The blurriness isn’t a sign you’ve had too much Arran…* Tasting notes:   PAUL: “Well, she was just sixteen, if you know what I mean, and she was [...]

Tasting notes:       The way the nose of this dram opens, it’s like I’m eating a mushroom omelette stuffed with cedar shake shingles, and I’m not even [...]

Tasting notes: How best to convey the balancing act of a nose that is utterly determined and still delicate?  With story, of course.  There is, initially, the whiff of [...]

Tasting notes: I admit it.  I’m taken by the name “Devil’s Punch Bowl.”  My mind turns to consider just what such a thing would look like.  If it were up to me, it [...]