Arran Sauternes Cask Finish Scotch Whisky Basil Haydens Dark Rye it went mostly unnoticed

it went mostly unnoticed

which is why Port works so well here — the fortified wine casks push the whisky toward darker red fruit without burying the distillate

Frank August hand selected 5 barrels to be finished with Mizunara

one aged in a cask for 12 months and one non-cask-aged

soft juniper

Arran Sauternes Cask Finish Scotch Whisky Basil Haydens Dark Rye it went mostly unnoticedThe Sauternes finish is one of Arran's original experimental cask projects it existed in the distillery's earliest years and eventually earned a permanent spot in the core range. Sauternes is Bordeaux's iconic sweet white wine, made from grapes affected by noble rot, which concentrates them toward honeyed intensity. Arran's signature unpeated Lochranza spirit spends roughly eight years in ex bourbon barrels first, then finishes in Sauternes casks