Posts Tagged “Bourbon Casks”
![Compass Box No Name 2 (48.9%)](https://storage.googleapis.com/s8partner-pm_wp/1/2015/12/john-and-barrel.jpeg)
Compass Box No Name 2 is the sequel to the 2017 No Name, which looked to highlight the peat, and did so in a very ‘in your face’ way. The first No Name was composed of about 75% Ardbeg, 11% Caol Ila, 13% Clynelish and a wee bit of Compass Box’s Highland malt blend finished…
![From ‘Project Overlord’ to Compass Box Affinity (46%)](https://ansbach.armymwr.com/application/files/2015/4816/9120/AN_D_Day_Normandy_Invasion750x421.jpg)
I’ve been waiting for over a year and a half to write this post, although I had no idea back then it would be called Affinity. The beginning of the story is at the 2017 Whisky Show in London, where I took part in a great masterclass led by Becky Peskin bringing whisky makers to…
![Spice Tree Extravaganza – Compass Box (46%)](http://maltandoak.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/000012.jpg)
Spice Tree has had some controversy around its inception, an issue I’ve covered in the original Spice Tree post on the blog. We’re now a full decade past the taking of Spice Tree off the market, and David Glaser is marking this anniversary with an upgraded limited edition of the Spice Tree. As usual, we…
![Compass Box Three Year Old Deluxe (49.2%)](http://maltandoak.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/publicViewAttachment-1-1.jpg)
So they call This whisky a three-year-old. Now, of course, it technically is as 0.04 of it is, indeed, only three years old. Yes, you read that right, four tenths of a percent is three-year-old whisky from Clynelish that was aged by Compass Box itself in their own first fill American Oak casks. In the PR…
![BenRiach Cask Strength – Batch 1 (57.2%)](http://maltandoak.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/38618910.jpg)
It has pretty much become de rigueur for distilleries to have a (usually NAS) youngish cask strength offering. GlenDronach’s excellent sherried cask strength went into five batches before a comparable offering was made from BenRiach. This makes sense, as the distillery obviously wanted to use whisky distilled under the new owners, as nowhere does the distillery…