Isle of Arran 4 Years Old

Tasted in Whisky Magazine Issue 5 by Michael Jackson and Jim Murray.

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Tasting Notes

Michael Jackson Nose Creamy, flowery. Very faint fresh peat-smoke. Palate Clean and dryish and nutty at first. Then creamy and toffeish, with hints of banana. Finish Surprisingly powerful sweet lime flavour. Flowery. Developing light dryness. Comment A lovely whisky for one so young. What will it be like at two or three times this age?

Jim Murray Nose A trace of sulphur makes for a discordant opening, but there is a big malt character, clean and sweet, which makes amends. Palate Again, immediately malt-sweet and intense with soft, chewy cream toffee depth. A little grapey fruitiness also in evidence. Finish Very long; malty with delicate spice. Excellent sweet/dry balance. Comment Quite exceptional for its age and pretty complex too. But loses marks for the poor nose.