Arran 10 Year Single Malt Whisky (700 ml)

When Harold Currie, former Managing Director of Chivas Brothers, opened Lochranza Distillery in 1995, he made a deliberate transgression: on an island where maritime peat had defined whisky identity for generations, he built an entirely unpeated distillery — reviving legal distillation on Arran after a 160-year absence on his own terms.

The distillery sits in Glen Eason Biorach ('Valley of the Sharp Waterfalls') on the granite-dominant northern tip of the island, above the Highland Boundary Fault. Water descends from Loch na Davie through six waterfalls along the Easan Biorach burn, purified by granite and softened by trace peat — delivering a mineral-clean, soft charge water that underpins the distillery's characteristically bright, fruit-forward new make. The Gulf Stream microclimate accelerates maturation in on-site dunnage and racked warehouses.

Fermentation runs 60–75 hours in six Oregon pine washbacks using Kerry M yeast — the extended window deliberately targeted to develop fruity congeners. Double distillation passes through broad-pot wash stills (7,100 L) with tall necks and long lyne arms into bulb-shaped spirit stills (4,300–4,800 L), maximising copper contact and producing a clean, creamy new make collected at ~68% ABV. The 10 Year matures primarily in ex-bourbon American oak and ex-sherry European oak, then bottles at 46% ABV, non-chill filtered, no caramel colouring — a standard Arran holds across virtually its entire core range.

The special feature here is the combination: a fully unpeated Islands malt bottled without filtration or colouring at a strength most peers reserve for premium expressions, at an entry-level age statement price point.