Compass Box Eleuthera Marriage

Compass Box Great King Street - Artist's Blend

Nose: Vanilla up front, quite lemony, as in lemon pie, or meringue, green apples and maybe some pears too. quite fresh, with some oak notes. Palate: Creamy, but with a zing of gingery lemon stuff. vanilla custard, and some oriental candy, with bits of almonds, pistachios and sweet sultana towards the end, where a slight alcoholic bite is detected....

Score 83/100

Compass Box Menagerie

Nose: Balsa wood, Demerara sugar syrup, persimmons, roasted blood oranges, and a salty beach. Flavor: Quite a syrupy body, like an old Highland Park but without the distinctive Orkney peat, wildflower honey, marigold petals. It all feels caramelized. The malt is the foundation of the above and waiting in the wings is vanilla bean paste hugging the...

Score 92/100

Compass Box The Spice Tree

Review is based on a freshly opened bottle. Nose: oak influence is big - sawn lumber, sawdust, a lot of vanilla, cloves, baked apple covered with lots of cinnamon, hot red pepper Palate: cardamom, vanilla, white pepper, fresh almonds (or even apricot seed), a bit of furniture polish Finish: wet oak, pepper, then quickly transforms to vanilla and...

Score 88/100

Compass Box Great King Street Glasgow Blend

Compass Box has just released a second permanent edition of its Great King Street blends on the market, this time with a red label, named ‘Glasgow’. This blend consists for 67% of Islay malt (Laphroaig), Highland (Clynelish) and Speyside (Benrinnes) and 33% is grain whisky from the Lowlands (Cameronbridge). It is a marriage of first fill sherry...

Score 83/100