Glasgow Blend Single Marrying Cask #500018

Profile: The Glasgow Blend Single Marrying Cask #500018

• Luxury blend with even more depth: Exclusive single Cask from Compass Box
• Matured in Marrying Cask: Aged for 18 months in Oloroso Sherry-Seasoned Butt
• The big advantage of blended Whisky? The best characteristics from different distilleries combined

Portrait: What makes the Glasgow Blend Single Marrying Cask #500018.

Blended Whisky 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 whiskey often cannot achieve. They compose their luxury blends from high-quality single malt and Single Grain Whiskies from their own 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 Glasgow Blend Single Marrying Cask #500018 was with an increased 49%vol. bottled. The flavor-intensive Glasgow Blend Single Marrying Cask #500018 is characterized by smoke and sherry aromas, which are found in the Single Marrying Cask #500018, an Oloroso Sherry-Seasoned Butt, deepened.

Married: June 16, 2022
Bottled: July 26th, 2023

The composition in detail:
Cameronbridge Single Grain - 35.2%
Single malt from a distillery near Aberlour - 34.1%
Laphroaig single malt - 18.2%
Clynelish single malt - 9.9%
Highland malt blend - 2.6%

Cask Type: 
First Fill Bourbon Barrels, First Fill Sherry Butt, Refill Barrel, Custom French Oak Barrels, Revatted Sherry Butt; Oloroso Sherry-Seasoned Butt (Marrying Cask)

Cask-No.: 500018
Outturn: 672 bottles

Tasting Notes: This is how the Glasgow Blend Single Marrying Cask #500018 tastes

• Nose: at the beginning there is clearly the sweetness of ripe stone fruit, with heather honey and ground cinnamon - above all elegant peat smoke, aromas of wax and polished oak
• Palate: strong notes of red Boskoop apples and coconut cream , with a little vanilla - above all slightly salty smoky notes
• Finish: very long in the finish - now getting spicier with lots of oak and the peat smoke again - with a dash of honey