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OBAN DISTILLERY
The Western Highlands’ capital, Oban, has a whisky label printed with the town’s history: settled by Mesolithic cave-dwellers before 5,000 BC, later by Celts, Picts, and Vikings. It was a fishing village, and in the era of railways and steamships became a gateway to the islands of the west, which it still is. Travelers following the muses of Mendelssohn, Turner, Keats, or Wordsworth to Mull or Iona, or Fingal’s Cave, return to see a harbourfront centered on the distillery – backed by mossy, peaty hills whence its water flows. The whisky already had a following as a single malt when it was presented as a salty-peaty 12-year-old in a Victorian-looking, beveled “perfume” bottle. That has long been discontinued, and is hard to find. Its firm, dry peatiness perhaps associated it with a vestigial style in the few distilleries on the mainland of the Western Highland. Oban has become much more widely appreciated as one of the Classic Malts range. In this version, mellowed by even two more years in the wood, and gentler in its peatiness, the salty coastal character is less masked. In 1997, a version finished in Montilla fino was added.
HOUSE STYLE Back to West Highlands Distilleries Single Malt Scotch, Irish Whiskey, Bourbon, Rye Whisky, Canadian Whisky, Cognac and Tequila all available for purchase online to Michigan residents only |
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