Compass Box - Experimental Grain Whiskey - 46%
Compass Box Whiskey is a Scotch whiskey production company, founded by American John Glaser in 2000. After working in the wine trade and then for the great distiller Johnnie Walker, John Glaser took the plunge and launched his own whiskey business. making whiskey in his kitchen. A decade later, the company has successfully established stocks of matured whiskeys in Scotland, with a mixing room for blends and an office in London. Compass Box Whiskey sources cooperage oak from the French Vosges Forest and the woods of Missouri, USA. The company carefully selects each cask for its blends. Once blended, the whiskey is returned to the cask to develop additional flavor and character for six months to three years.
The company sparked controversy in 2015 due to disclosing too much information on their labels, particularly details of distilleries, cask types, ages and proportions in final blends. John Glaser has therefore launched a Scotch Whiskey Transparency Campaign with the aim of giving producers the opportunity to fully disclose the composition of a blend.
Experimental Grain Whiskey is a limited edition released in December 2021 that produced 6,142 bottles . It is a blend of: 36.7% rebossed American oak barrels from the North British Distillery , 31% second fill Bourbon cask from the Loch Lomond Distillery, 17.8% second fill Bourbon cask from Hedonism Blended Grain and 14.5% reboiled American hogshead oak casks from The Cameronbridge Distillery . Loch Lomond Distillery's special plot of whiskey is made from peated malted barley, distilled in their Coffey copper pot still. Although it is fully malted barley, the use of a column rather than a pot still when distilling means it cannot be categorized as a Single Malt.
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