Compass Box This Is Not a Luxury Whisky

To celebrate its 15th year, Compass Box has released this limited edition in homage of painter René Magritte's surrealist masterpiece "Ceci n'est pas un pipe" ("this is not a pipe"), both created with the intention of, as Master Blender John Glaser states, challenging "peoples' perception of reality." The idea is that the common definition of "luxury whisky" is that it is rare, expensive and old, yet Glaser also maintains that "luxury" should also be about the character of the whisky itself. This blend contains 19-year malt aged in first-fill sherry butts from Glen Ord (79%), 40-year grain from Strathclyde (10.1%), 40-year grain from Girvan (6.9%) and 30-year malt from Caol Ila (4 %) (the last 3 whiskies aged in oak hogshead casks). Limited to 4,992 bottles, non chill-filtered.