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Compass Box This Is Not a Luxury Whisky
Blended — Scotland
Reviewed
October 16, 2016 (edited May 4, 2017)
Biggest qualm I have with this is weird interpretation of Magritte best described by /u/zephyrtr:
"They've missed the point of Magritte's painting. He was saying that, truthfully, it is not a pipe, but a representation of a pipe. Because it's a painting, not a functional tube of wood you'd use to smoke tobacco.
So if you write "this is not a luxury whisky" on a bottle that is in fact a luxury-priced whisky, I'm not sure what you're trying to say or prove here except that maybe you took an art history class in 1977 and kind of remember what your professor said.
I get that they're trying to say "luxury whisky is now defined as a collectible and tradable commodity, and this whisky is for drinking" but that in no way parallels with Magritte, and how art represents life.
Edit: Maybe if they had instead written "This is not a collectible"?"
Anyhow, this was quite good but I much preferred the seductive smokiness and price of Flaming Heart 15th.
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