dhsilv2
Compass Box No Name No. 3
Blended Malt — Scotland
Reviewed
December 10, 2021 (edited June 22, 2022)
This is coming to the channel hopefully sooner than later, but Mike's taking his time so lets just spoil this a bit. So this is mostly 15 year laphroiag bottled at near 50%. Do I even need to review it?
Nose - Iodine forward smoke with this mix of sherry and funky oak and weird malt notes. Digging deeper there's spearmint. There's gasoline and there's oak. Under that lemon and lime come out, lightly smoked but still wet inside.
Taste - This is medium to high viscosity and that creates this amazingly oily whisky experience. Laphroaig and bowmore and clynelish are all just playing together like best friends. Heavy smoke from campfire to medicinal to smoked BBQ to just smoked wood fire stove. It's wonderfully clean and also dirty. There's citrus and vanilla and creamer for your coffee. There's mint and smoke and citrus and so many wonderful notes.
This is an amazing pour and I'm buying another one tomorrow. This is hands down the best compass box since tobias and when you factor in price, it's the best in a long time. I might have to compare this to flaming heart 2015. But to be fair, it's so much bigger and bolder and more creamy and just the mouth feel here is amazing.
Score is between a 3.75 and a 4.0. I'm going to score this 3.75 but I'm thinking I"m letting the price influence me. This might be a 4.
Buy a case. That's my review.
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@PBMichiganWolverine I think this is better than 1 but not by a lot. 2 wasn't special at all. This worked so well.
@dhsilv2 i’ve not had this yet, but it sounds better than their first one. I loved thE first one, wasn’t as thrilled with #2.