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Arran Ambassador's Choice Issue One #685

Arran Ambassador's Choice Issue One #685
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Lot number: 084-0485

Winning bid: £40

Situated in the Firth of Clyde, the island of Arran was once a hotbed of illicit distillation and smuggling. Eventually though the dreaded Excise men got the best of Arran's renegade stillmen, and the island was without a working distillery from 1837. That all changed in 1995 when the Arran distillery at Lochranza started production.

Although it is a relative youngster, Arran's investment in quality casks has paid dividends, and its popularity continues to soar like the Golden Eagles that nest nearby. This quick success, combined with high visitor numbers at the Lochranza distillery, have enabled the company to construct another distillery at Lagg, on the south of the island, that will focus on creating peated whisky.

The inaugural Ambassador's Choice release from Arran, this is a single cask bottling drawn from one of two sherry butts selected by the distillery's ambassadors.

Distilled: 09.05.1997

Bottled: 14.07.2008

Cask Number: 685

46% ABV / 70cl

Bottle Number: 582 / 825

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