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This Arran KWM Cask was featured on Day 9 of our 2023 KWM Whisky Calendar. You can find Evan's blog post on this bottle here
Our 13th KWM exclusive single cask of Arran (16th if you count a couple of shared bottlings with a local club,) was filled into a Sherry Butt Cask #930 on the 14th of May 2013, and was bottled after 9 years on March 7, 2023, at 58.2%. We've bottled lots of Sherry Hoggies of Arran, but I think this is our first ever Butt, and there are 516 total bottles!
700ml mlAndrew's Tasting Note
Nose: deep, rich, and earthy with dried fruits and festive spices; dark milk chocolate infused with pink peppercorns, soft new leather driving gloves, and Fruit by the Foot; Christmas Cake, sticky toffee pudding, and caramel chews; warm cinnamon-spiced apple cider, fennel seeds, and clove;
Palate: dark, rich, and sherried with bags of sweet fruits and spices; more Christmas cake, sticky toffee pudding with treacle sauce, and churros; more spicy dark milk chocolate, chewy caramels, candied fennel seeds, and soft Aussie licorice; building festive spices, cinnamon, ginger, clove, and star anise; grilled figs, cooked raisins, baked apple, and more, much more... leather, tobacco, and earthy dunnage warehouse notes.
Finish: warming, spicy, and toasty with a fine balance of fruits, spices, sherry, and earthy warehouse notes.
Comment: a classic young sherry bomb, but with a finesse of a much older malt; big, rich, spicy, and fruity, with lots of layers; as my friend Jane would say, a rather moreish dram!
Evan’s Tasting Note
Nose: Christmas cake, toffee, raisins, gingerbread, orange peel oils, date squares, roasted almonds and peanuts, and a touch of cinnamon.
Palate: Oily, spicy, mouth-coating, and sweet with more toffee, milk chocolate, raisins, ginger, mulled apple cider, strawberry jam, and hazelnuts.
Finish: Long and sweet with plenty of butterscotch and fruit sticking around.
Comment: It’s a festive holiday dram! I would usually worry about saying that about a whisky in case, we are still selling it in the summertime. Arran always makes me feel festive, though.