The Compass Box Range - Tasting Set 5x 0.05l

Compass Box was founded in 2000 by John Glaser.
The idea of creating a whiskey to the taste of the customer is as simple as it is ingenious.
Compass Box Whiskeys are Blends and Vatted Malts and Grains!
The bottlings are without exception small runs, so-called "small batches".

Compass Box buys self-selected barrels of various distilleries and combines whiskeys, as you know it from any conventional blend or Vatted.

The results are impressive, with many critics and journals praising Compass Box as the most innovative whiskey blender in Scotland.
At the "International Wine & Spirit Competition" the blend "Asyla" won gold!

Other awards and reviews:
Innovator of the Year Award 2002
Innovator of the Year Award 2003
Innovator of the Year Award 2006
Whiskey Magazine, UK

Pioneer of the Year Award 2002
Pioneer of the Year Award 2003
Malt Advocate Magazine, USA

John Glaser ...
The whiskey industries free thinker.
Whiskey magazines

One of Scotland's most innovative and
acclaimed whiskey makers
BBC Good Food Magazine

Asyla
Asyla is a soft, sweet and malty whiskey.
The Blend consists of 50% Grain Whiskey of the major Grain Distillery Cambus and 50% Malt Whiskey of the distilleries Linkwood, Cragganmore and Glen Elgin.

The age of the whiskey is between 10 and 12 years.

All Compass Box fillings are not cool filtered and have no dyes.

Tasting Notes:
Vanilla, malty, delicate fruit flavors with a wonderful sweetness, soft on the palate.

The data:
distilleries:
Grain - Cambus
Malt - Linkwood, Cragganmore and Glen Elgin
Barrels: First-fill bourbon barrels
Age of whiskeys: 10 - 12 years
Alcohol content: 40% vol.
Content: 0.05l

Hedonism
Hedonism is a Vatted Grain Whiskey, sweet, vanilla, toffee and cocoa flavors.
The selected grain whiskeys vary from batch to batch, but there is always a percentage of old whiskey from the great grain distillery cambus included.
Some of the barrels used are up to 25 years old.

The age of the whiskey is between 10 and 25 years.

Hedonism is the only Vatted Grain Whiskey on the market!

All Compass Box fillings are not cool filtered and have no dyes.

Tasting Notes:
elegant, sweet, with wonderfully reverberating vanilla, toffee and cocoa flavors.

The data:
Distilleries: Cambus Grain distillery and other Grain distilleries
barrels:
First-fill Barrels Bourbon barrels
First-fill hogsheads bourbon barrels
Age of whiskeys: 10 - 25 years
Alcohol content: 43% vol.
Content: 0.05l

The Spice Tree
The Spice Tree is a deliciously spicy, rich Vatted Malt Whiskey.
The Vatted is a pure Highland Malt, four top distilleries, including Dailuaine and Teaninich, make this malt a real top whiskey.

The age of the whiskey is at least 10 years.

All Compass Box fillings are not cool filtered and have no dyes.

Tasting Notes:
A natural, deep mahogany color and a rich nose with spices such as cinnamon, cardamom and clove - but also sweet fruit compote, nougat and caramel.
Sweet, soft and rich on the palate, with beautiful maltiness and fruits.

The data:
distilleries:
4 Highland Distilleries - including Dailuaine and Teaninich
Age of whiskeys: at least 10 years
Alcohol content: 46% vol.
Content: 0.05l

The Peat Monster
A Vatted Malt, consisting of malts from Caol Ila and Ardmore.
A real smoke and peat bomb that truly deserves the name "Monster".
The age of the whiskey is between 10 and 15 years.

All Compass Box fillings are not cool filtered and have no dyes.

Tasting Notes:
Thick, smoky and peaty aroma reminiscent of smoked bacon or a campfire by the sea.
In the taste very malty and earthy notes.

The data:
Distilleries: Caol Ila and Ardmore
Barrels: First-Refill
Age of whiskeys: 10 - 15 years
Alcohol content: 46% vol.
Content: 0.05l

Oak Cross
Oak Cross is a wholly-owned malt whiskey, which achieves its impressive quality through additional ripening in custom-made barrels.
These special barrels have French oak floors and an American oak body.
This achieves a perfect balance between the lighter note of the whiskey matured in American oak barrels and the spicy and dried fruit note of the French oak.
When bottling, some of these special barrels are selected to create an extra flavor level that is usually unreachable.
The result is a soft malt whiskey with the taste of clove and vanilla, highlighting the sweet malty and fine fruit notes.
Oak Cross uses only Highland malt whiskeys aged at least ten years. They are carefully steamed to balance the sweet-delicate, slightly malty flavors with the heavier fruit character.

All whiskeys undergo the first ripening in various types of American oak barrels.
The "marrying casks" are a mix of "first-fill" bourbon barrels and Compass Box's own "Oak Cross" barrels made from American and French oak.
Soft on the palate, with aromas of clove and vanilla, emphasizing sweet malty and fine fruitiness.
Medium body with a long finish.


Data of bottling
distilleries:
Exclusively Highland whiskeys, led by Teaninich, paired with malts from Brora and Carron.
Age of whiskeys: at least 10 years
Alcohol content: 43% vol.
Content: 0.05l