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Oban Special Releases 2025 Heart of the Harbour, 12 YO, OB; 54.7%, B:2025. Price:  Colour: Gold-old gold Nose: Maritime, salty, clean, with some spices (white pepper and oaky spices), sea brine, vanilla, some citrus and a touch of salted toffee. Taste: Salty, oaky, slightly waxy and citric, on lemon zest, light mineral flavours, sea brine, sea salt, vanilla and oak spcies, as well as some heather. The finish is rather long, with a mixture of sea brine, wax, citrus and some light mineral flavours, on citrus, sea brine, some mineral oil and at the end, a touch of peat smoke. Diluted, there are some light peppery flavours. Impression: I liked this Oban, close to the 14 YO, but somewhat more vibrant, intense and more oaky and citric. Rating: 14/20  FP:A2
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Oban 10 YO Special Releases 2024, OB, 58%, B:2024. Price: Colour: Old gold Nose: Maritime, slightly malty, with some sweet fruity flavours, sultanas, orange, heather, sea brine, vanilla and a touch of smoke. Rather elegant. Taste: Oaky, salty, with rather intense oaky and vanilla flavours at the start, before becoming sweeter, on sultanas, red berries, warm apples, heather honey and candied sugar. The finish is rather long, sweet, slightly sugary, on sea brine, vanilla and nice round and sweet dried fruits and red berries. Impression: A nice expression of Oban, slightly rough and oaky at the start on the palate, before the nice sweet and fruity flavours from the final maturation in ex-oloroso cask develop. I would be happy to see more releases of Oban with a sherry influence. Rating: 14/20 FPG1
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Oban Young Teddy The Macleans Distillery Exclusive, OB, 50.8%, B:2023. Price:  Colour: Gold Nose: Intense, rich, rather complex, slightly maritime and mineral, with some dried fruits, leather, sultanas, fudge, and some grapes. Heavier and markedly more complex than the Special Releases. Taste: Rich, spicy, meaty, on old leather, smoked meat, sea brine, rancio, a touch of old rubber, treacle, brambles and some red berries, as well as some wood smoke. The finish is rich, long, slightly salty and acetic., on spices, leather, sultanas, figs, ranciom smoked meat, game, a touch of old rubbers and various berries. Impression: A very expression of Oban, rather complex, with a finish in ex-sherry casks (ex-oloroso and palo cortado) giving some body, meaty and leathery flavours to the whisky. There are some rancio and a touch of old rubber, but not unpleasant. I wished that Diageo would release some times some sherry matured Oban. Rating: 15/20 FP:G3
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Oban Special Release 2021, 12 YO, OB, 56.2%, B :2021. Price: Colour: Pale gold Nose: Maritime, elegant, slightly salty, peaty and austere, with some sea shore breeze, sea salt, a touch of peat, seaweeds and iodine. Taste: Salty to very salty, maritime, elegant, on seaweeds, iodine, some vanilla and peat smoke, as well as some sea shells and pink pepper. The finish is medium and on the same flavours. Diluted, it becomes more oily, with some apples and green olives. Impression: Matured in charred oak casks, this Oban offers a nice maritime single malt, elegant, with a light peat smoke, lemon and pink pepper flavours. A whisky that I enjoyed very much tasting, even if not very complex, as it is elegant and well made. Rating: 14/20 FP:A1
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