Compass Box

[This whisky is the result of a collaboration between Compass Box founder John Glaser, Compass Box wheiskymaker Jill Boyd, and Rosey Mitchell, the 2018 winner of The Circle, [...]

Tasting notes:The nose on this dram, which is a blend of Scotch Whisky and Calvados, opens with funk, but it’s deep, dark, red, overripe apple cider funk. The woodiness [...]

Tasting notes:On the nose, it’s all high register phenols oozing out of green apples and key limes grown especially for macarons served to castrati. It’s rich and [...]

Tasting notes:As your nose approaches the glass, tropical fruit notes strike first: pineapple, papaya, but then apricots, marshmallows, and, improbably enough, elderberry [...]

[Editor’s note: This Limited Edition celebrates 10 years of collaboration between Compass Box Whisky and the packaging design company, Stranger & Stranger. The [...]

Tasting notes:The Compass Box Flaming Heart 2018 Edition noses like banana roadkill—and not the bounce-off-the-bumper-to-the-side-of-the-road style of roadkill, either. No, [...]

[This new expression in Compass Box’s core range is a blended malt focused on whisky matured in Sherry (48% of the blend) and Spanish red wine casks (25%).] Tasting [...]

Tasting notes: When my nose delicately hovered drone-like over Compass Box’s latest self-aware homage to its own line of special Hedonism blends, the signature of grain [...]

Tasting notes: The owl of Minerva spreads its wings only at dusk, a wise philosopher has said.  But the deeper question is: what does the owl pour into the glass on his end [...]

Tasting notes: We have a very strict policy here at The Malt Impostor, and we have it down to a four word mantra: no name, no theme. Granted, we rarely ever invoke it (this [...]