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Compass Box This Is Not a Luxury Whisky
Blended — Scotland
Reviewed
February 10, 2017 (edited September 1, 2018)
This just validates my love affair with Compass Box. Yes, they're getting pricier and pricier---as evidenced by their latest offerings, but they do make good stuff. John Glaser and company have proven once again the artistry behind chemistry. Anyone can take mixes and blend them together, but it takes a real artist-chemist to take the right portions, the right age, and the right casks to make magic. I don't care much for their marketing and sticking-it-to-the-man type advertising ( like "3" which has a wee bit of a 3 year old Clynelish, and rest as 20+ year old Talisker and Clyenish), but they do make good stuff. This is a tinge of smoky, sweet--- Caol Ila written all over it. And a well mannered Caol Ila at that...obviously aged. Smoke, chocolate on the nose. Luscious creamy smoky milky texture on the tongue. Simply well made blend. ( Johnnie Walker...you taking notes?) Thanks to Lee for providing a generous sample! Lee---when I open up my "3", will need to send over a sample.
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LeeEvolved - let me know when you get lemonade stand set up and running...
1.75L ??!! Sweet Christmas...what the heck would you do with that much???? I took a bunch of my open bottles over to a homeless center in NYC ( #highclassnychomeless).
Awesome review, Pranay! I keep saying that each successive Compass Box I try will end up being the one they cannot top, and each time I'm forced to eat those words. That's a great thing, except that each new bottle seems to bring bigger price tags or even lower bottle counts. I will, however, gladly take you up on that 3 Year Old Deluxe. I have a $300 bottle of The Circus teasing me from high over top the bar and a special bottling of the cask strength version of Peat Monster. The challenge with that is it's a damn 1.75L bottle and once I open that I'm going to have to set up a lemonade stand in the yard to sell off some of it because there's no way I could finish that bottle in a respectable amount of time. If only I knew a few cats that really like smoky, well-blended scotch.... #firstworldproblems
Excellent review Pranay. I'm sipping on some Hedonism right now and it's so good. Lee has also given me a sample and I'm afraid once I try it I'm going to leap for my wallet and laptop to try and find a bottle