Compass Box The General
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- Publiceret: Tirsdag, 3. december 2013 21:54
- Skrevet af MacNiels
It’s been a good year for sourcing ridiculously rare parcels of extraordinary whisky.
Two different companies approached us recently with similar stories: they each had several casks of Blended Scotch that had been blended at quite young ages, then not required and put back into cask and left to age. One parcel was 33 years-old and the other was...well, I’m afraid I can’t tell you. (By telling you the age of the other parcel, some might argue we are in violation of the UK’s
Scotch Whisky Regulations - citation 2009 No. 2890. But that’s another story.)
Flavour Descriptors We could tell by tasting that some were aged in former American It has extraordinary depth, with aromas and whisky casks and some in sherry casks. But the provenance wasn’t really flavours reminiscent of spices, dried fruits and old important, because each parcel had matured into something extraordinary sherry wine character. The palate is very soft, a in flavour, and to us, as blenders, they each represented distinct and virtue of blending malt whisky with grain whisky, complementary flavour profiles.
and the finish is very, very long.
And this is where things got interesting for us. While each parcel was compelling in its own right, we had the feeling that by combining them in the right proportions, we could make something even more interesting.
So we experimented for many weeks, blending the two together at different proportions before landing on the recipe in this bottle.
The result is a whisky with the “antique” character lovers of old whiskies seek out.
Availability We know little of the component whiskies, only that, Limited Release of 1,698 being Blended Scotch Whisky, they were blends of both Individually-numbered bottles single malt and single grain whiskies.
Bottled in November 2013
Bottling Details
Bottled at 53.4%
Not chill-filtered
Natural colour
Kilde: Compass Box
www.thewhiskyexchange.com/P-22408.aspx
så er en del af indholdet 33 år og resten 40 år.
Al J.