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Compass Box Flaming Heart Batch 5

About three years ago I tried the Flaming Heart from Compass Box, a blended malt that is composed with care by John Glaser and his team. This 5th edition was released to celebrate the 15th anniversary of the Flaming Heart. This version is 38.5% 14 years old Caol Ila, 27.1% 30 years old Caol Ila and 24.1% 20 years old Clynelish. The remaining 10.3%...

Score 88/100

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 Great King Street - Artist's Blend

You probably won’t encounter a review of Compass Box whiskies without the word “innovative” somewhere in the first paragraph, so let’s get it out of the way: they’re innovative! Innovative with cask experimentation, oak selection, malt-grain blend ratios, flavors, packaging, and interior decorating (okay, maybe not the last one). The mad genius...

Score 90/100

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