Compass Box Orchard House

A thoroughly unpleasant experience in a glass. I much prefer the Great King Street Artist Blend to this, and it's cheaper. I'm a Compass Box fanboy, but they missed whatever mark they were aiming for with this one. I suppose it was bound to happen.

A true delight to drink. It’s just delicious, well balanced, and leaves you wanting more of it.

A nice sipping scotch with floral and sweet notes.

Replacing the 2021 discontinued Oak Cross, Orchard House is the latest addition to the Compass Box core range. Ripe fruits are the main theme, and the nose delivers what the label promised: apples, pears and vanilla, mixed with peaches, biscuits and honey. More of the same on the palate, before it turns spicy and slightly dry in the development, enriched by unripe banana, pineapple and ginger. Lemon zest, grapefruit and herbal notes subside in the medium finish, and I can even hear the Caol Ila whispering. A rock-solid sipper for long summer evenings. RATING: 3.7/5.0 stars ≙ 85 pts → ABOVE AVERAGE [+]

2022 bottle) Apples in honey, Fuzzy Peaches made into an ale, pear, mild/moderately smoked hot peppers, ginger, vanilla cake, sultanas, cinnamon sticks, mushed peppermint patties, candied almonds, apple blossoms, and fudge. This doesn't have the rough edges I was expecting (a good thing).