dhsilv2
Compass Box No Name
Blended Malt — Scotland
Reviewed
October 18, 2019 (edited December 11, 2022)
Second bottle of this.
Nose - Medicinal, sweet, puffy sweet smoke. I might get a caramel or chocolate at the very back end. it's a good peated note, but nothing special.
Taste - The finish is awesome, tooties rolls, oak, and creme brulee. Sorry i had to jump there. The opening is a bit medicinal, slightly metallic, there's a buttery creamy sweetness. It's a lot more mellow and sweet than a normal ardbeg with their intense punch you in the face peat. This blend has calmed things down and added more sweet and savory notes.
I'm really digging it. 3.5. It's not going to change your life or move the needle, but it's well worth chasing down if you like peat. Maybe a bit over priced though.
125.0
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@Fettness well, sadly their is no clearly defined meaning to these scores.As a result everyone's scores are subjective. Should someone who's never had a 500 let alone 1000 dollar whisky ever score a 5? Conversly if one hasn't had a 10 dollar bottle of bourbon in a decade can they really score a sub 1 star correctly? So while my scores might lower the middle class whisky scores, it gives me a lot more room and range differentiate high quality whiskies from eachother, and I will end up drinking far more 500+ dollar bottles than sub 25 dollar bottles this year. I'd rather have more range to score the higher end stuff.
@dhsilv2 okay, that's fine but I'm not a fan of that scoring system especially as most people don't know that and it contributes to the over all score being low. as a personal score that is fine but in a public post ouch that brings this down.
@Fettness 3.5 is an extremely good score for me. 3.0 is the point where if you like a whisky style and the price is in your buy range, you buy with no second though. I try and keep the 4+ stuff for the truely wow bottles, and those that are life changing.
seems like a low score for how much you found.
@dhsilv2 Thanks for all the info. 👍🏼
@AntonioSchmid well you decide on if 13 is old or young. Ardbeg has only age stated their old distillete from before they were re-opened, their 10, and now their 19. Everything else is NAS and this was 13 year ardbeg.
I mean at the time it was the oldest Ardbeg you could buy at 13 years old. Then 24% was 15-16 year old caol ila and clynelish. I'd say the bigger question is the casks for the Ardbeg, recarred barrels...I could be convienced this was a value, but just as easily that it's way over priced.
@PBMichiganWolverine Is this young Ardbeg? I heard it’s quite old Ardbeg in the bottle.
In retrospect, now that I think of it, it’s overpriced —-you’re paying essentially for a young Ardbeg