A Sinlge-Malt I Canniot Recommend

[Jack Daw]

On a whim, I purchased a bottle of Arran 10 (year old single malt). I did this because I visited the relatively new distillery on the Isle of Arran back in 2003. We had a couple of drams offered at the end of the tour and I remember a delicious scotch. So, my purchase was not without some knowledge of its taste. Well, something happened and I don't know what, but the taste was intolerable. I shared drams with others at the Houston Highland Games earlier this month before I took my first taste. Their kind, blank faces should have forewarned me. Was it just a bad batch??

Webby:

http://www.arranwhisky.com/TastingNotesMalts.aspx

P.S. - No, I was not drunk when I wrote the title. I failed to see my multiple typos before the editing window closed.

[ForresterModern]

On a whim, I purchased a bottle of Arran 10 (year old single malt). I did this because I visited the relatively new distillery on the Isle of Arran back in 2003. We had a couple of drams offered at the end of the tour and I remember a delicious scotch. So, my purchase was not without some knowledge of its taste. Well, something happened and I don't know what, but the taste was intolerable. I shared drams with others at the Houston Highland Games earlier this month before I took my first taste. Their kind, blank faces should have forewarned me. Was it just a bad batch??

Webby:

http://www.arranwhisky.com/TastingNotesMalts.aspx

P.S. - No, I was not drunk when I wrote the title. I failed to see my multiple typos before the editing window closed.

If you had more than one variety tasted at teh end of the tour you may very well have tasted one of their single cask varieties, always a little more flavorful and tasty (also higher in alcohol content) in addition to their standard bottling offering, and I bet that is the one you are remembering. I have tried Arran 10---a bit overpowering at first but it settles with the second or third taste a bit.

I took the Aberlour tour and we tasted about 8 different stocks of various ages and varieties, each one more expensive and tastier than the last, including the single cask full strength which was by far the tastiest, at least that day. So tasty I brought home a hand bottled and hand labeled collector bottle for myself. But when I put it up against some of the others of various ages and bottlings I have in my collection it is not quite the same difference as I remember from the distillery tasting. I think actually being in the distillery when you do the tasting adds something (not physically but mentally) that just makes it all taste better, at least in our minds.

jeff

[Jack Daw]

If you had more than one variety tasted at teh end of the tour you may very well have tasted one of their single cask varieties, always a little more flavorful and tasty (also higher in alcohol content) in addition to their standard bottling offering, and I bet that is the one you are remembering. I have tried Arran 10---a bit overpowering at first but it settles with the second or third taste a bit.

I took the Aberlour tour and we tasted about 8 different stocks of various ages and varieties, each one more expensive and tastier than the last, including the single cask full strength which was by far the tastiest, at least that day. So tasty I brought home a hand bottled and hand labeled collector bottle for myself. But when I put it up against some of the others of various ages and bottlings I have in my collection it is not quite the same difference as I remember from the distillery tasting. I think actually being in the distillery when you do the tasting adds something (not physically but mentally) that just makes it all taste better, at least in our minds.

jeff

I'll sample a bit more before I decide what to do with the rest of the bottle's content. It was markedly different than what I remembered from the distillery.

[BEEDEE]

I was there the first year that they distilled so at that time they did not have a whiskey of their own to sample. They had created a blend that they thought would be close to the finished product, perhaps that's what you remeber.

Brian

[beloitpiper]

Really? Because I've had their Robert Burns Single Malt and thought it was exceptional. Maybe you got a bad bottle or something?

[Jack Daw]

Really? Because I've had their Robert Burns Single Malt and thought it was exceptional. Maybe you got a bad bottle or something?

Or, my flask was not as clean as I thought (despite cleaning it the night before).