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Arran Grand Cru Champagne Cask 75cl

Arran Grand Cru Champagne Cask 75cl
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Lot number: 096-08974

Winning bid: £120

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. 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

This bottle has been finished in Grand Cru Champagne casks.

Bottled: 14.08.2005

Cask Type: Champagne

59.9% ABV / 77cl

Bottle Number: 198 / 304

Please note minor peeling to labels.

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