Compass Box Flaming Heart 10th Anniversary

Compass Box Flaming Heart 10th Anniversary

Nose: smoke more than peat, but also a light, refined creaminess with fruit. Grapefruit, lemon drops and lemon cream. Lively and fresh. The fruit plays a bit nervously under the smokiness. It comes out at times, and also hides behind it. You can tell that there's a spirit there, but it just tops in at a pleasant level. More of 'hay' in the smoke,...

Score 98/100

Compass Box Flaming Heart 10th Anniversary

Thanks to @Numen for the reviewed sample. Flaming Heart 10th Anniversary is a 'pure/vatted/blended malt' whisky. Some of the whisky is aged in new French Oak Nose: sweet, peaty, spicy, floral, and malty in perfect balance, like an exquisite potpourri in a malt nose. This does not wander around at all, but presents a finished constant beautiful...

Score 92/100

Compass Box Flaming Heart 10th Anniversary

Compass Box are known for their unusual flavor profiles and their magnificent packaging. Sometimes they fall short but mostly they hit it out of the park. And this one has home-run written all over it. A marriage of three different single malts, aged in American and French oak this has possibly one of the most complex noses found on a blended...

Score 93/100

Compass Box Flaming Heart 10th Anniversary

Flaming Heart is a blended malt, put together from whiskies that matured on refill bourbon casks, heavily charred French oak and a couple of sherry casks. The precise malts used is a well kept secret, although we do know that it contains a southern coast Islay malt and some Clynelish. Hmm, the nose takes you directly to Islay. The peat and the...

Score 89/100