Compass Box

Tasting notes: On the nose, it’s papaya rind and mango pith, ground into a paste and dried in the sun to glue together a palm frond skirt. There’s also a ball of [...]

Tasting notes: -Hiya. I’d like a really old Clynelish with a much younger Clynelish chaser. -Well, if you’d like that, you’d really love this whisky [...]

Tasting notes: The Compass Box Spice Tree Extravaganza opens with a biscuity, grainy, bright and candy, clementine and sunshine citronella breakfast smoothie served at the [...]

Tasting notes:  To say what I’d like to say about the compelling nose of this blend of five different 41 year-old casks of grain whisky from two different distilleries, I [...]

Tasting notes: Wow, I’m struck by the smokiness and char.  “Flaming” heart, indeed!  I’m nosing the ruins of the Alexandria library through a still-sappy poplar [...]

[Disclaimer: This is not a review, nor an interview with the Scottish Princeton professor Angus Deaton, the 2015 Nobel Prize winner for Economics. All but one of [...]

Tasting notes: In a departure from our normal practice, we tasted this blind.  We weren’t going to rely on the MI spectrograph for this one.  On the nose, it’s fruit: [...]

Tasting notes: We understand this is a blend of Sherry-matured and Bourbon-matured malts, along with some grain whisky and some new French oak finishing thrown in there just [...]

Tasting notes: The nose of the Compass Box Lost Blend slips in quick and quiet, like a mouse donning a kevlar vest before assaying a hunk of smoked gouda cheese sitting on a [...]