Arran 23 Year Old The Explorers Series Volume 4 / Drumadoon Point

Although the Isle of Arran was once a hot-bed of distilling activity, there were no distilleries on the island for the majority of the 19th and 20th centuries. Isle of Arran Distillers opened their first distillery in 1995, and it quickly became a firm favourite. They bottled its first single malt in 1998, a limited edition 3 year old in a glass decanter. The distillery also produced a peated single malt called Machrie Moor, however an experimental second distillery on the other side of the island, called Lagg, is now the site of all the company’s peated production. As of 2018, the distillery was renamed Lochranza, however its single malt brand is still known by the old title, Arran.

This is the fourth release in Lochranza distillery's The Explorers Series. It replaced the now-discontinued Smugglers' Series which celebrated the island's illicit whisky history. This range instead celebrates the island's natural charms. 

This expression is titled Drumadoon Point and pictures golfers beneath the dramatic Doon Cliff.

The whisky itself has been aged for 23 years in ex-Sherry casks from Jerez and has been bottled at cask strength.