Arran Distillery

The Arran Dis­tillery is located at Lochranza, Scot­land, the only dis­tillery on the Isle of Arran. Arran Dis­tillery was founded in 1995 and is the first legal dis­tillery built on the Isle of Arran in over 150 years. The water for the malt is from Loch na Davie.

The dis­tillery of the Isle of Arran was founded by Harold Cur­rie, for­mer direc­tor of Chivas. The spirit pro­duced in the dis­tillery has offi­cially been called “whisky” since the sum­mer of 1998. To cel­e­brate this event, a lim­ited bot­tling has been released, to restore an ancient tra­di­tion. There used to be about fifty dis­til­leries on the island, but most of them were “moon­light” or ille­gal distilleries.

A pro­por­tion of the casks are stored in the ware­houses of Spring­bank, due to a lack of room in the dis­tillery, and the legal impos­si­bil­ity of extend­ing the cur­rent ware­houses at the Arran distillery.

The whisky of Arran is used in lots of blends, among oth­ers Loch Ranza and Holy Isle Cream Liquor.