Oban reviews

A few months ago I made an appointment with my American friends John and Mary-Angela. After all, they came to Belgium and that was the perfect opportunity for them to bring some bottles, such as the…

I've already been lucky enough to taste quite a few Distillers Edition from Oban. Eight to be precise, but this release from 2018, a distillate from 2004, had escaped my lips until now. Recently I org…

Ah, Oban... It never disappoints, does it? Anyway, at Whivie HQ we are crazy about it, so we were happy that an Oban has also appeared in the series this year. 'The Tale of Two Foxes' must refer to the…

This is the most recent bottling of the Oban Distillers Edition, distilled in 2006 and bottled in 2020 after a second maturation on a Montilla sherry cask. I am putting it head-to-head with the release…

Whenever I go to for dinner in a restaurant and I see the Oban 14 on the shelve – this does not happen very often, I admit – I order a dram. This classic, maritime malt in fact never disappoints. That…

Oban is one of Scotland's oldest distilleries, founded in 1794, but also one of the smallest with an output of a mere 650,000 litres per year. This has everything to do with the location of course, which…

Old review from November 2015; I scribbled this one down at a very interesting joint in Cuenca (Spain) named Jovi: it was a dark, leather-laden, English-styled old pub right in the middle of the old…

The odd one out in the series as it does not represent one of the Great Houses of Westeros, but the Night’s Watch, those dudes pledged to celibacy and the guarding of The Wall in The North against the…

Someone whispered into my ear that the Oban 21 ‘does not deliver’. That’s a pity. But allow me to try it for myself. Lo and behold: it is a sniper. It starts somewhat closed, almost sneaky, but given…

Hard to believe I've never reviewed an Oban before, since it's one of Diageo's well-known Classic Malts (according to them, anyway). One of Scotland's oldest distilleries, it was established in 1794 in…