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I put up this review for the Oban 12 2021 Special Release just in time for it to go on sale again (£50 MoM)!

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Here is the lineup in full #BlindDrams massive thanks to @dornochdistillery.bsky.social for helping set this up

@socialdrammer.bsky.social Well done mate!

Amazing lineup. Can't believe I spotted the impostor for the right reasons.

Pure fluke.

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Scores 3,1,4,4,3

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5

Nose: more delicate, tropical candy, soursop, slightly papery, miso, mustard, ginger, fruit studded cheese
Palate: buttercream, lemoncurd, ripe honeydew, starfruit sunflower oil
Finish: mild black pepper and soft mustard powder, foxes glacier mints

Classy, but mild

3/5

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4

Nose: Yeast, candied bacon, leather mild vanilla cream, calamine
Palate: Sweet vanilla milkshake, savoury malt, semi dry strawberry and tamarind
Finish: rounded honey pepper

Sweet peat treat

4/5

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№ 3

4/5

Would be happy to own this.

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3

Nose: caramac-ee, biscoff, cola, malt vinegar,
Palate: Thicker, sweet and soft raisin, peach nectar, frazzles, tangy toms but not sharp, very light sulphur
Finish: honeybutter, white pepper, salt, more intensity

After the last one, this is easy to enjoy.

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№ 2 1/5

Not for me.

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2

Nose: lemon herbs: thyme, tarragon, oregano. Bit of odd solvent and citronella. Smoke?
Palate: light approach, vanilla cream, imperial leather
Finish: rosewater eau de toilet, very mild lingering buzz on the lips and roof.

Weird.

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№ 1 3/5.

Good start

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1

Nose: nougat, pineapple cubes, cardboard
Palate: Tutti fruty, Nuts and light milk chocolate,
Finish: dissapating tail, astringency, unsalted butter, lightly bitter herb

Quite like this

YES!

Final scores for the #BlindDrams

2, 3, 2, 3, 4.

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Nose: smoked paprika, sweet cure bacon, pot puri, blood orange, vanilla, dry fried chillies

Palate: barley sugars, Salty sweet oily Malt, meaty peat

Finish: Ashy, Vietnamese coffee, Halls menthol lozenges

Now this is my fave this eve 4/5

Agree - this is my favourite so far as well. Very cohesive and the touch of smoke elevates it. #BlindDrams

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Nose: Lemon oil, green melon, braeburn apple, vanilla, wet grass, sencha, green grape, crisp oak, bit of prickle, bit of salt and smoke?

Palate: Oily and citric, fresh shredded ginger

Finish: herbs, peel, honey and bitter leaf, but the bitter doesn't stick, numbness

Like this 3/5

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Gonna drop back down to a 2/5 for dram No.3 #BlindDrams

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Nose: Boiled lemon sweets, oregano, thyme, lemon drizzle, vanilla, golden cereals, lactic lemon posset

Palate: slick lemon barley sugars, glazed cereal, yellow plum with a little catch on the skin, caramel

Finish: Oily, pepper, peel, minerals, neutral camphor, chilli on the lips

I think I like this more.

Gonna go with a 3 for No.2

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Nose: Pickled peach, red and white wine (cherries, raspberries, gooseberries lychee, white grape) and damp oak

Palate: Apricot lavashak, peach cobbler with oats and flaked almond bit of yeast

Finish: Buttery peach pits, very light tannins grey pepper and muddled mint leaves.

Geraniums! That's a great note.

Alright - I reckon I'm giving No.1 a 2

Nice all round, but not popping for me.

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1.
Nose: lemon sherbets, Jif/Cif, parmesan cheese rinds, guava, vanilla, nougat

Palate: Powdered sugar morphing into sherbet, honey cream, coconut Turkish delight

Finish: candied peel minerals and tingles of pickled horseradish and camphor

Like it.

I got a chance to try that last weekend. Might be the best M&H I've had. Excellent stuff. 👍🏾

To be fair, it's happened before and it'll happen again.

Update: Got into the Ruadh Maor sample last night (2010 BBR cask 69)

Waking up this morning, I have independent verification that my face smells like barbecue sauce.

I'm killing the rest of the Daftmill 2011 sample from #BlindDrams

Didn't do particularly well on on the night... Enjoying it more in isolation this evening.

Got a little 11y Ruadh Mor from BBR for laters.