Oban Distillery · West Highlands
Oban 14
Official producer wording under taxonomy 3.0.0.
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Peat & smoke
SMOKE
Fresh fruit
ORANGE · FRUIT · APPLE · CITRUS
Sherry & dried fruit
CAKE
Vanilla & oak
Silent in the official notes
Spice & pepper
SPICE · CLOVE
Maritime & salt
BRINE · SEA
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Immediate and confident; rapidly gaining intensity. Warming and sweet: oily, waxy and nutty, balanced by delicate ripe orchard fruits. Then, lighter notes of an almondy fruit cake sit atop a denser layer of Christmas pudding. Behind, malty cereal notes are offset by aromatic orange. Much later: traces of brine and smoke, a little menthol and pine resin.
Tags: smoke · orange · fruit · cake · brine
Dense and coating, spicy too; sweet, yet menthol- fresh. Filling and warming, with the comforting chewiness of rich fruit-bread and hints of orange zest and clove, before growing drier, still minty, with crisp green apple. Less dense and fruitier with just a little water, which allows the classic Oban fruit, malt, and maritime hints free reign until the balancing, drying spice returns.
Tags: apple · citrus · orange · fruit · cake · spice · clove · sea
In a word, long. Quite syrupy at first, then drying, with elegant coating tannins rich in dark chocolate character. Later, pine-fresh. At once cleansing yet chewy, with just a trace of late, slightly cedary, smoke.
Tags: smoke