Oban 21 Year Old Diageo Special Release 2018 Whisky - 70cl 57.9%

Age: 21 Year Old
Alcohol ABV: 57.9%
Bottle Size: 70cl 
Description: Diageo Special Release 2018
Distillery: Oban
Region: Highland
Vintage: -
Year Bottled: 2018

Diageo, the world’s largest spirits company, as well as the planet’s largest distiller of Scotch whisky, has been releasing each year, since 2001, a selection of 10 special releases from its hallowed whisky vaults.

The latest 2018 releases consist of bottlings from stocks of now closed distilleries, and special new expressions from their existing lineup of single malts, which features both extra young and extra old age statements, whiskies bottled at cask strength or whiskies not previously available as single malts.

This latest Diageo expression was drawn from European refill oak butts, bottled at cask strength.

Nose: A touch of olive oil with orange notes quickly developing with a spiced peel. 

Palate: Sweet and sour orange zest before stewed apples follow, accompanied by darker notes: liquorice and chocolate.

Finish: Chocolate and waxed apples round this whisky off with familiar orange and spice notes lingering.

Whiskey fun has scored this North Port Brechin 1979 Rare Malt Whisky 78/100 overall on their site through customer recommendations.

Serge describes this whiskey as ‘Really surprising that Diageo would have ‘made’ this, but on the other hand, it does remind us of the Rare Malts. Indeed many Rare Malts were utterly and totally stellar, but a tiny few have been real rotguts that would have made you blind and bald if you weren’t careful… looks like we’ve found the lame duck amongst this year’s SRs. The 14 was so much better in my book! But indeed, as always, only one man's opinion, and some