History
Oban Distillery was founded by two brothers, Hugh and John Stevenson, who arrived at the frontier of the Hebrides in 1793. In 1880, a railway finally arrived in Oban, bringing more commerce and tourism to the small town. After a fire in 1890, a hidden cave was found underneath the distillery with Mesolithic remains. Oban continued to prosper despite recessions, crashes, and disasters, and found itself opening a new still-house in 1972, maintaining Oban’s ever-steady production of its fine malt whisky.