Cree Arran 18 yo, sherry hogshead, 54.60% ABV (700 ml)

Cask Number: #2

Age: 18 years

ABV: 54.6%

Cask Type: Sherry Hogshead

Bottles: 111

Bottle Size: 700ml

92 points from Whisky Advocate’s Julia Higgins:

There’s a low-tide earthy air about this independently bottled single malt. It has a delectable salinity to it, made all the better by a faint sweet scent lurking in the background. The palate is velvety and coats the mouth with flavors of vanilla frosting, dried apricot, lemon meringue pie, and peppery spice. More vanilla and lovely lemon fruit on the finish—there’s a mouthwatering array of flavors from top to bottom.

Our tasting notes:

Nose: Barley and a cool sea breeze

Palate: Sugar, honey and vanilla

Finish: The unmistakable sweetness of a juicy ripe mango

Goes down like Southern sweet tea. We’d swear there’s a teaspoon of sugar in there—if we didn’t know better. No caramel color, no additives. Ever. That’s the Creetown promise.

Natural color, non-chill filtered.

Reviews from Real Scotch Drinkers

By Chris Browne AKA the Islay Enthusiast

: Pale gold

: Right up front is a drier Sherry wine grape note and spices. Aromas of honey, confectionery sugar, honeydew melon.

: You get sweet and tart combined. Lots of honey up front, white grape juice and orange citrus, followed shortly afterwards by a dryness you experience with a Fino or Manzanilla sherry wine flavors. Sherry wines offer a very wide variety of flavors, along with being some of the driest to the sweetest wines in the world.

: I really enjoy this whisky! One of the things that I love about Scotch Whisky is the huge range of flavors it has to offer with all the different high quality casks that are used for maturation. I love and appreciate all types of Sherry wine. This whisky does a great job of offering you another version of a Sherry wine cask matured whisky that showcases a whisky untypical of what’s on the mainstream market.