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Over the past few unsettling months, we have laid the groundwork to create a unique Blended Malt by filling casks with new spirit from both our Lagg and Lochranza distilleries on the Isle of Arran.

In March this year both of our distilleries underwent a period of closure due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The UK has seen the temporary closure of many businesses a lot of which have still not re-opened at the time of writing today.

When the distilleries began production again on 11^th May, the first runs of new spirit from each distillery were vatted together. This precious mix, combining both heavily-peated and un-peated spirit, was filled into Bourbon Barrels, Sherry Hogsheads and Sherry Butts at our Lochranza Distillery. These unusual casks will now slumber on the island until the time is right for bottling as a future Blended Malt.

This is a particularly interesting project to mark this unique moment in time. We are an island whisky producer, and we are also in the rare position of owning a lowland and a highland distillery both based on one island off the west coast of Scotland. The DNA of the two distilleries is inextricably linked through their island connection and the flavour profile of the future Blended Malt Whisky is bound to create something very special with which to remember this time in worldwide history.

Our Director of Operations & Production for Lagg and Lochranza Distilleries, James MacTaggart said: “This is a first for Isle of Arran. We are aware of blended malts where the whisky from one distillery is married with that of another, of blended whiskies created by mixing grain with malt whisky, however this is the first time that we know of malt whisky from two sister distilleries being blended at the spirit stage. As the owners of two wonderful distilleries on the Isle of Arran, we felt it was right to join the two sides of our island together and produce a whisky that would always be a marker for this unique period in time.”

Our Sales Manager Andy Bell said “I am proud to have played a part in creating this truly unique blend, and will follow with interest as these casks mature. The experimentation at the heart of this process speaks to the truly independent nature of our company.”

We will take good care of these casks, as we do all our spirit, and look forward to releasing them in the future.  Hopefully, they will allow us to look back on the time when our island spirit, relience and strength as a team served us very well indeed.