A tale of two blends

Blended whisky astonishingly is still liked upon with distant by many for no apparent reason other than they once tried a blend and didn’t like it. The mere fact they are happy to dislike a single malt and still announce to the world that’s the category is superiors baffling. We all know the blends that…

Compass Box – Magic Cask

Compass Box I have looked upon Compass Box as innovative for such a long time that i often forget just how forward thinking they actually are.. We all know about the fantastic labels and weird names they come up with and the recopies that create such wonderful tasting whiskies but what we sometimes forget is…

Compass Box Hedonism

Compass Box They dared to be different !! They set the bar for blends ! They innovated the way we think about whisky ! They made Blended whisky, Blended Malts trendy again !! They got into trouble with the SWA. They gave us very trendy and unique whisky labels. But most importantly they gave us…

A DAY IN THE LIFE OF Compass box.

Next up in the series is Jonathan Gibson from Compass box, this is an independent company producing some absolutely fantastic whisky ( blended ) , but other than the whisky they produce they are intent on being honest and never seem to too far away from a little controversy.. The words transparent and compass box…

THE CIRCUS MEETS ENLIGHTENMENT

Compass box have recently released another two big blended expressions, ” The Circus and Enlightenment” both are limited editions and both are NCF and Natural colour.. Compass box is one of those company’s that tries to have innovative and be forward thinking which sometimes gets them a slap on the wrist by those that don’t…