Oban Little Bay

Pretty smoothe honestly. Did not really taste the fruityness.

Really good clean scotch. Not peaty for folks who dont like peat. Still carries the flavors of a good scotch without the peat

Has a very fruity taste, kind of peachy. Grain forward with a lot of malt - chewy barley notes. A hint of smoke. Nice coastal, briney, salty, ocean flavors. But the finish, the finish is where this whiskey really loses me. It has a dry, funky, citrusy sherry kind of finish - something like a strong fino. It really dominates and I just flat out dislike it. I've had whiskey with these kind of flavors where it worked very, very well. In my opinion, it doesn't work here - it just clashes with what the rest of the whiskey is doing - it's not a counterpoint, it's more an obstruction. It leaves me feeling like I'm puckering my mouth, wishing the overly tart, dry flavor would just go away, and that the sweet fruity/malty flavors would come back. Unfortunately, that excessively tart, dry sherry sticks around. I could see how someone COULD like this, but I don't. If you like Oban and dryer sherry, this might be for you. I prefer my sherry and sherry finishes sweet. This is much too dry for me. I don't think PX would necessarily work, but I think I'd like this more if they'd turn up the sweetness a notch or two. Not a bad whiskey, but a hard pass for me. There aren't many single malts I actually dislike, but this makes the list. I can appreciate this on a technical level, but I don't actually enjoy it. I feel like I need to go to Islay and lick some freshly smoked peat to get this taste out 😝.