Product description
Arran Distillery is located on the island from which it takes its name, near the village of Lochranza. It is a relatively new distillery, having started producing whisky in 1995.
In the first decade of the new century, the company offered several editions of whisky finished in barrels of various wines. The single cask version presented here contains whisky that spent the last period of maturation in a Montepulciano d'Abruzzo Villa Gema barrel from the Masciarelli vineyard. Bottled on November 22, 2005 at a natural alcohol content of 56.9% in an edition limited to 315 bottles. Montepulciano d'Abruzzo is a red wine produced from the Montepulciano grape in the Abruzzo region of central-eastern Italy.
Nose: wine, lots of pepper, cherries, cranberries, grapes, dried plums, traces of candied ginger and lemongrass and some oak.
Taste : quite spicy, pepper, ginger, a pinch of nutmeg, cherries, apples, plums, a handful of dried herbs and a subtle bitterness of oak.
Finish: quite long, with notes of pepper, ginger, dried herbs and stewed fruit.