Oban 2007 Distillers Edition | 700ML

Distilled at Oban in 2007, the limited Distillers Edition was treated to a finish in ex-Montilla fino sherry casks before bottling in 2021. Awash with silky toffee, zesty citrus, and satisfying sea spray, this splendid dram is heaving with sweet, coastal character.

Oban 2007 Distillers Edition | 700ML Tasting Notes

Nose: Malt loaf with salted butter, pickled lemons, soft, honeyed apricot, and distant bonfire smoke.

Palate: Heaps of fruit comes through, with prunes and grapes, sultanas, and zesty marmalade, backed up by salted butterscotch and smoked oak.

Finish: Sweet burnt sugar and warming oak spice linger.

Distillery Information

Oban pride themselves on being one of the smallest (46,069 sq feet - second only to Royal Lochnagar), oldest, most traditional and authentic Scotch whisky distilleries. Oban (pronounced “OH-Bin”) is a Gaelic word that means “Little Bay”. The distillery employs a total of only seven staff and produces a modest 670 thousand litres of whisky per year, which is small by today's industrial production standards. Oban claims that their production methods haven’t changed since 1794 and that they’ve never expanded or moved the distillery. This shows impressive restraint in an age of hyper-expansion across many scotch whisky distilleries. Oban claims that this restraint is all in the name of the authenticity and quality of their whisky. They claim that 50 hours in the washback would be sufficient to produce the alcohol needed to make their whisky, but they leave it for 110 hours to generate more flavour. This means that they produce less whisky, but it’s worth it for the extra quality of the final product. Likewise, running the stills hotter or faster would speed up the cycle time and produce more output, but that spirit would be “harsher”, which they don’t feel is an acceptable compromise. Given the small scale—of both the distillery and the team—and traditional production methods of Oban, it’s almost tempting to label them a craft distiller. The Oban distillery sits at sea level on the north-western coast of the Scottish mainland at the northern tip of the Kintyre Peninsula (making Oban a Highland Whisky) in its namesake town of Oban. Oban claim that the distillery is 208 steps to the sea (we haven’t verified this!). When the distillery was first built, it was right on the seafront, but as the town and harbour grew up around it, the seafront has been pushed back by a whopping 208 steps. The building itself has a slate roof which is ingeniously able to lift so that they can access the machinery to replace, move or maintain it.

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