Artist Blend Single Marrying Cask #500134

Profile: The Artist Blend Single Marrying Cask #500134

• Luxury blend with even more depth: Exclusive single Cask from Compass Box
• Matured in the Marrying Cask: Aged for 18 months in the Ex-Clynelish American Oak Barrel
• The big advantage of blended Whisky? The best characteristics from different distilleries combined

Portrait: What makes the Artist Blend Single Marrying Cask #500134 special.

Blended whiskey is changing. “Whiskymakers” like Compass Box are doing away with the image of the category, lifting it with perfectionism and transparency the quality level of single malt - and beyond. John Glaser and his team create textures and flavors that a single whisky often cannot achieve. They compose their luxury blends from high-quality single malt and single grain whiskies from their own barrel warehouse in Scotland.

Two Single Cask Bottlings for the German market are now on display Compass Box Standards Glasgow Blend and Artist Blend from completely new perspectives. For this purpose, the blended Scotch whiskies, inspired by recipes that are over 100 years old, were matured in Marrying Casks as was once customary. The effect? More complexity.

The Single Cask Artist Blend Single Marrying Cask #500134 was with an increased 49%vol. bottled. The creamy, lively blended Scotch made from Highland Single Malts and Lowland Grain whiskies matured for one and a half years in an ex-Clynelish American Oak Barrel.

Married: 01.02.2022
Bottled: 24.07.2023

The composition in detail:
Cameronbridge Single Grain - 45%
Linkwood Single Malt - 27%
Balmenach Single Malt - 10%
Clynelish Single Malt - 10%
Highland Malt Blend - 8%

Cask-Type: 
First Fill Bourbon Barrels, Custom French Oak Barrels, Revatted Palo Cortado Sherry Seasoned Butt; Ex-Clynelish American Oak Barrel (Marrying Cask)

Cask-No.: 500134
Outturn: 198 bottles

Tasting Notes: This is how the Artist Blend Single Marrying Cask #500134 tastes like

• Nose: juicy aromas of raisins and sweet plums, fresh red apples and brown cane sugar - followed by spicy aromas of anise seed, freshly ground cinnamon and grated nutmeg
• Palate: full and complex in taste - the red apples are present , with clearly slightly salted caramel - in the background there are hints of vanilla pods and cinnamon again
• Finish: the finish is long - the red apples are now found in a magnificent apple cake, paired with cardamom and cinnamon - light tones of butterscotch