Best Value Single Malt 3 Years Running | OSWAs 2023 Winner Arran 10
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 10 ธ.ค. 2023
- Some would say winning the Best Value Single Malt is the pinnacle award of the OSWAs (Online Scotch Whisky Awards).
Well the Arran 10 from Lochranza Distillery has now won it three years in a row.
Let's review the whisky today and see what is so special about the Arran 10 Single Malt.
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Have you tried the Arran 10? Do you think it deserved to with the OSWAs again?
I'm having my first dram of the Arran 10 with you. Great video and I really like your accent. It's pleasant. Slainte!
Thank you Tommy 😊 I love that you are enjoying your first dram of Arran 10 along with me!
Slàinte 🥃
Hi Wade. Arran 10 is with no doubt Great Whisky. Craft presented with age statemen at reasonable price. Its exceptional at current Whisky climate. I like Arran 10 from 1st sip and grow on me down the bottle. Remember one night i've been in the mood and had three or four drams and couldn't stop. Quickly finished my bottle. Need revisit soon. Cheers 👍😁🥂🙋🏻♂️
Always a sign of a good bottle when you can’t stop till it’s gone!
I did get a bottle just after the rebranding a few years ago, and I really liked it then. But it haven't been available in Sweden for about 2 years now, sorry to say, but I've heard some rumours that it will appear some time next year. I really hope that it does 🌞
Hopefully it will be more accessible to you soon!
Spot on review my friend. To me this is the best contender to get a non whisky drinker to like whisky by way of first introduction to their as yet unannounced journey to them, then let them try again, wait a while, then again. It takes a time to get your head around sipping neat booze when your a beer drinker and no matter if it is a award winner, most non whisky drinkers will have it as the devils brew at first taste. We have all tried a recommended nice one, we thought tasted like diesel and after a few years went back to it, only to appreciate it as a beautiful dram. This is one of the best almost scientifically put together mouth pleasers without pushing the boundaries on any specific, nose or palate holy grail taste or smell taking the top step. It is a master class of a crowd pleaser and clearly put on the top step as such. Beautiful. All that said, 😂, Ledaig sinclair Rioja wins for me as it is stupidly cheap in UK right now it is like stealing it. Love your channel, look forward to your next one.
Thank you my friend, well said. Arran 10 isn’t my favourite whisky (I too really enjoy the Ledaig Rioja Cask with more bold flavours), but the quality of the Arran 10 is undeniable and I enjoy it greatly.
Hi Wade, fully agree with you. The Arran 10 is a really good whisky, also considering the price for a 10 years old whisky. In Germany still available for less than 40€.
Cheers Uwe
Can’t knock the value for money on this one!
Great review man!! 💯🤙good thing I tagged you on Instagram last saturday on my Arran 10 neck pour lol.. you know it's one of my all time favourite daily sipping whisky. Great background music too!! Slainte my friend!! 👑🥃
Thank you mate, yes good timing indeed!
Buenas my Bro, Muchas gracias por el video hermosa cata y gran whiskhy el Arran 10 coincido 100x100 con tu fantástica descripción lo que si no se si soy yo pero le agregaría a tu descripción también ciertas especies como pimienta o jengibre lo noté bastante picanton y persistente en mí boca , Hermosa copa metistes sangre me encantó muy linda copa tulipan o como se llame felicitaciones por esa gran adquisición..Abrazo grande y muchas gracias por compartir tus enormes videos 🥃🥃
Gracias mi hermano. No entiendo las notas de pimienta, pero seguramente puedo ver elementos especiados allí también, ¡fueron más notas de miel las que aparecieron para mí y cada uno de nosotros captamos cosas diferentes!
Sí, este vaso se llama vaso de nariz Stölzle, es muy bueno y será uno de los vasos incluidos en mi próximo video comparativo de vasos de whisky. MUCHOS videos para filmar y editar ahora mismo, incluidos algunos de los mejores whiskies del año 😉
¡Más por venir!
I absolutely love this one. My favorite pick at the moment. Enjoyment a 110%
Hard to fault it isn’t it? Cheers my friend 🥃
Cheers🥃
Havent tried the 10 but love the Arran Quarter Cask (cask strength) and they are pretty comparable with each other on price.
I’m yet to try the quarter cask, soon! Another bottle living on my shelves unopened currently 😅
Hey Troy, I have the quarter and while I love it, it shows the cask strength fully out front for me. Needs a touch water. On another lovely Arran if you have not tried the Bodega, sherry, also cask strength, that is dare I say it, my top whisky. No alcohol punch in the chops, just a beautiful easy sipper that you would have you on your arse faster than stampede at your local whisky shop giving away free bottles of Springbank 10. It the has all the 10 has with more. For my taste buds it is a wow every-time.
@@jazjac17 will have to give it a try 👍.
Voted for Arran 10 again as I thought it deserved the trifecta award. Craigalliche 13 is is my choice going forward. It was always my people's choice vote. Cheers Wade
Yes I wonder how many people voted for the Arran 10 to help it secure the trifecta. Good point. Will be interesting to see what next years OSWAs bring now that it can’t be included.
I still have the old bottle of this....as seen in ralphy review 534, (from 8yrs ago).
Opened?
@@McIntyresMalts yeah, about 1/3 left
@@premier1975 Have you compared the two side by side?
@@McIntyresMalts not yet. I really should get around to that.
I'll be sure to let you know what I reckon, when I do
Hi Wade ! Arran 10 nice whisky ) Cheers !
Indeed it is my friend, glad you enjoy 😊
I really like this whisky but I remember how muted it was when I drank it side by side with the Tamdhu 12 (which is nice but not out of this world... different style too, I get that). The Arran 10 nose and palate is really light, so it kinda disappears when you drink it side by side with other whiskies. In that style of whisky I prefer the Glencadam 10 to be honest.
Interesting! Yes the Tamdhu 12 has loads of aromas and flavours even though it’s a lower ABV and chill filtered. I prefer the Tamdhu sherry profile for my palate, but the Arran has a better texture. Yes the Glencadam has loads of character and has a more unique profile, where I think the Arran 10 excels is that it’s a well presented, affordable textbook example of a honey, fruit and vanilla malt whisky. Cheers for checking this one out 😊
Hey wade
I bought the Arran 10 and the Glencaddam 10
Just 2 weeks ago yet to open them over Xmas for surely!!!!
When I hear honey in my whiskey I’m excited!!!! 😊
Cheers!!!! 🥃
Love them both but I particularly prefer the Glencadam 10. Very unique flavor profile.
@@brunovmedeirosthanks nice to hear your input!!! 🎅🏻✌🏻
Two great choices my friend, and I know you don’t like peat! Keen to hear your thoughts on the two when you’ve tried them 🥃
If I still had some Glendcadam 10 this would make a great 🆚 video!
@McIntyresMalts thanks I knew when I had the glencadam 15 was a very nice interesting taste so I'm sure 10 should do fine also!! ✌️
Love it sir
🫡😊
Spot on tasty
Glad you think so!
Deanston 12 tied last year with Arran 10, and this year does not make the list, how weird is that?
That is VERY weird
I like Arran 10 but to win three years in a row shows a spectacular lack of imagination and a high level of groupthink predictability. What's the best whisky? - Oh it's Springbank 10, what a surprise. Best distillery? - Oh, it's Springbank, what a surprise. Best blended whisky? - Oh, it's Thomson Brothers, what a surprise, especially as Roy rated it so highly on a recycling video. Best Blended Malt? Oh, Campbelltown Loch (something to do with Springbank, even though it doesn't taste anything like Springbank), what a surprise. Best new distillery? - Ardnamurchan, how utterly predictable.
Honestly Wade, I like all of these whiskies but I can't for the life of me think why I would vote for the same expressions year after year. Arran 10 is great value but there are a lot of great value expressions. Are we to vote for the same thing endlessly? I love the OSWAS but it's becoming groundhog day. Yep, there's a lot of highly predictable groupthink taking place.
Arran 10 is a lovely whisky and great value. I get it, but are we going to buy it and drink it forever like squash? The OSWA's are a democratic voice (and I love Ralfy and Roy) but this could just go on forever. The original concept was shake up the boring and traditional Whisky world to listen to our voice but if the results are going to be the same year after year what's the point?
Sorry to involve you in my rant my friend but I hope I advance some interesting observations. WT
Yeah I hear you Welsh, and I think Roy and Ralfy have done a good job in recognising this and implementing the condition that once a whisky has won any category 3 years in a row that it can no longer be considered in that category the following year. Given that the OSWAs are only 3 years in, I'd say this makes the lead up to next year's awards the most interesting yet.
Why do you think people keep voting for the same whisky over and over? Plenty of the nominees were great and any of them would have been a worthy winner. I also don't think we can be upset because a whisky wins over and over again, we might not like the outcome, but it's democracy. I also think there was an element of people getting behind Arran and wanting them to win the trifecta, and that's fair enough too.
Perhaps it's also that we have been conditioned now to always expect the next thing, the next thing, they next thing and when a whisky is so good that it becomes predictably good at winning we get board because of the repetition.
The OSWAs are young and I think it time it will do what it is intended to do as it grows and that is become an influence that can swing the pendulum and encourage distilleries to release more integrity spirt, hopefully resulting in so many naturally presented whiskies that it's hard to narrow it down to just 6 great nominees, let alone a winner.
As always mate I appreciate the banter and your knowledge in the space 🙏
P.S. For context I wanted Ledaig 10 to win it and thought it would.
Fair points... nothing like a good rant from time to time 😁👍
I like the Arran 10, but don't love it. I've had a bottle, but most certainly won't replace it.
Last year I voted for the Glencadam 10 in this category, this year the Kilkerran 12 (imo a much better dram even at a slightly higher price point, but I get why it couldn't win for a couple of reasons).
I voted Loch Lomond 12 (could just as well have been Craigellachie 13 too, but only one vote allowed) in the people's choice. The Craigellachie is actually the superior whisky imo, but more expensive than LL 12 in Denmark, which explains my vote.
Cheers 🥃