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Oban 12 Year (2021 Special Release)
Single Malt — Highlands, Scotland
Reviewed
December 29, 2022
Was going to do a video with this, but bought a bottle so I'll just write this and see what to do with the bottle.
Nose - There's this element of savory, salty, and sweet here that's really interesting. Sometimes a younger malt can start to give off glue notes, barely, and some metallic elements. This one at first starts to hint we might be going down a bad path, but instantly takes a u-turn towards sweetness and a more clean and mature malt. Instead I think what we have here is a very earthy barely, light salt, over a touch of caramel, vanilla, and toffee. There might even be the ever so slightest touch of ginger spice. As it opens the nose shifts more to tart white fruits, white wine, now I'm distinctly getting short bread cookies (was thinking that earlier but now it's clear), orchard fruits. Really tart and fruity.
Taste - Tart Lemon jumps right out, turning to white wine as you swallow, followed up with rich salty malt. Sugar cane and light vanilla icing try and sneak in. There's a mix of orchard fruits trying to get in but now working. There's on t[he finish an even so slight waxy note that's turning towards slight oak and the oak slowly builds as the finish lingers. I was told that there was a moment of soapy notes and yeah in the middle of this I get that.
Well, this was a nicely done very classic malt. A bit odd, a bit different, but it mostly works.
I'll give this a 2.0. It's a nice change of pace but as I tend to say. Get yourself an Oban 14 and move on.
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