This bottling of an 11-year-old Oban as an original bottling of the distillery was produced under the name The Soul of Calypso as a Diageo Special Release 2023. The whisky was finished in ex-rum casks from the Caribbean and bottled at cask strength in 2023.
In the middle of the harbour town of Oban (meaning: small bay) lies the distillery of the same name, which was founded in 1794 by the Stevenson family. It is one of the smallest distilleries in Scotland.
Scotland and Scotch whisky is a global trend, a development that has led to a flourishing whisky scene in Scotland. There is hardly a week that goes by in which there is no news about another new distillery being built or the reopening of a distillery that has been closed for a long time.
Scotland, together with Ireland, is today considered the motherland of whisky, whose roots there go back to around 1500 AD.
This bottling of an 11-year-old Oban as an original bottling of the distillery was produced under the name The Soul of Calypso as a Diageo Special Release 2023. The whisky was finished in ex-rum casks from the Caribbean and bottled at cask strength in 2023.
In the middle of the harbour town of Oban (meaning: small bay) lies the distillery of the same name, which was founded in 1794 by the Stevenson family. It is one of the smallest distilleries in Scotland.
Scotland and Scotch whisky is a global trend, a development that has led to a flourishing whisky scene in Scotland. There is hardly a week that goes by in which there is no news about another new distillery being built or the reopening of a distillery that has been closed for a long time.
Scotland, together with Ireland, is today considered the motherland of whisky, whose roots there go back to around 1500 AD.
