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| Hello, that is considered one of our (virtually) every day tastings. Santé! |
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November 2, 2021
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A Bag of Blended Malts by CB
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That will be Compass Field.
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Compass Field ‘Orchard Home’ (46%, Compass Field, blended malt, 2021) 
Some Benrinnes-Linkwood-and-Clynelish-driven juice (the Elixir people would approve), that ought to be westerly fruity certainly. Color: straw. Nostril: a fruity malt with a stronger spine than traditional (flints, wax, tiny touches of smoke), with apples, gooseberries, inexperienced pears, plums and only a contact of pre-Brexit Center-European eau-de-vie (Zwetschke and compadres). Mouth: it’s coherent, even tarter now, very fruity, just a little ‘inexperienced’ certainly, with granny smith, kiwi, apples, greengages… You would not declare you do detect the person elements, however I consider we have tried some Benrinnes, some Linkwoods or some (younger) Clynelishes that had been like this. That’s to say superb. End: medium, fruity, with a grassier coating, as traditional. Maltier aftertaste. Feedback: not a fruit bomb, however certainly you’ll think about you are wandering all through an orchard after a great summer time rain (because the solar got here).
SGP:551 – 86 factors. |
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Compass Field ‘Fortitude’ (52.5%, La Maison du Whisky, blended Scotch, Artist #11, Pentalogy, 1074 bottles, 2021) 
A model new, nicely, first, an independently bottled unbiased blended Scotch whisky. Certainly, it’s not a malt, my mistake. Color: white wine. Nostril: very smoky, and I can’t not consider these older White Horses and even Mackie’s Malt-Mill-fuelled blends. You’d virtually consider the blender right here has been attempting to duplicate that historic type. I am pleased to report that he somewhat succeeded, as that is fairly sooty, with some coal, smoked meats, creosote, kippers, then just a little curry and previous flowers in a vase, mustard, dry Madeira… With water: smoked salmon, carbon paper, pencil eraser and mercurochrome. Mouth (neat): actually, an previous White Horse! The grains do not feel an excessive amount of I’ve to say. Citrons, angelica, bitters, mustard, liquorice wooden, pine resin… With water: much more on a great previous old-school smoky mix. B.r.a.v.o. End: medium, even sootier, a wee tad metallic… Precisely like an previous smoky mix certainly (belabouring my level, I do know). Feedback: I am going to dare asking, is not there some Lagavulin in there? Oh and wouldn’t it be potential to relaunch some sorts of Kork’N’Seal caps whereas being at it?
SGP:454 – 88 factors. |
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Compass Field ‘Confidence’ (55.3%, La Maison du Whisky, blended Scotch, Artist #11, Pentalogy, 966 bottles, 2021) 
One other blended scotch. Maybe did they handle to carbon-copy these previous Sandy Macnabs this time? Color: straw. Nostril: just a little extra within the type of the Orchard Home, however nonetheless sootier and waxier, so nearer to, err, Clynelish. I consider nobody’s ever going to complain. Good whiffs of damp earth, mushrooms… With water: some linseed oil, plasticine, teak oil, even castor oil (maybe)… Mouth (neat): there is a spirity hotness on the palate, a sense of espresso liqueur and loopy Frappuccino (apologies)… Not an enormous fan this time, let’s search the assistance of H2O. With water: somewhat higher however I do appear to really feel a thinness within the center, maybe from some grain. Starbucks’ personal whisky. End: identical. Candy, virtually bonbony right here and there. Feedback: I believed the nostril was completely fantastic, however I could have needed to somewhat do this one earlier than the Fortitude.
SGP:541 – 82 factors. |
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Compass Field ‘Surprise’ (52.4%, La Maison du Whisky, blended Scotch, Artist #11, Pentalogy, 384 bottles, 2021) 
Color: copper amber. Nostril: oh! A coastal waxiness, smoked and chalked. A bit of old-school as soon as once more, and simply completely excellent at this level. Oysters, pipe tobacco, engine oil, kelp, beeswax, chalk… It’s all excellent. With water: broths, fermented sauces, amontillados, sport… Mouth (neat): overdrive engaged and no grains in sight. Citron and grapefruit liqueurs, olives, oysters and clams, black earth, cigar tobacco, just a little fermented soy sauce… With water: please name the Anti-Mix-o-porn Brigade (certainly, a primary). End: lengthy but recent and virtually refreshing. Tiny herbs chiming in, and aniseed, fennel, caraway… Bitterer black tea within the aftertaste, as usually. Feedback: very conventional Compass Field, whose essential method, as I used to be understanding it, was once “nice + nice = greatest”. The identify ‘Surprise’ was not usurped right here, it’s a luminous ‘mix’.
SGP:563 – 91 factors. |
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I will be super-hard to go on after that one, so maybe yet another and that’ll be it…
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Compass Field ‘Ethereal’ (49%, for La Maison du Whisky’s sixty fifth Anniversary, blended malt, 2430 bottles, 2021)
Youthful malt 17 and older malt 26 yo. In Scotch you’d say this can be a 17, in brandy a 20.5 ((17+26)/2), and in rum a 41 years previous (17+26). Joking – fairly. Color: straw. Nostril: traditional Compass Field, actually, recent and coastal. Lemons, limes, seawater, oysters, vanilla, sunflower oil, camphor. I do know this can be a new bottling however I do have the impression that I’ve tried this earlier than, and a number of other instances. Lemon tarte with meringue, sprinkled with peated whisky and just a little mezcal. Mouth: somewhat on tart and bitterish fruits for starters, then on seawater, simply lemons, kippers, cough syrup, extra mezcal, olive oil, just a little tar, smoked fish and a contact of high-concentration manuka honey. End: when smoky bitterness is an asset. Fernet Branca, Underberg, a sense of slate, oysters, bitter oranges, manzanilla… Feedback: let’s overlook that that is ‘only a mix’ and do it justice. The 49% vol. work very well, will not they develop into the brand new 46?
SGP:565 – 90 factors. |
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I am ueberglad to note that Compass Field are in full type; and that they nonetheless handle to supply nice juices. By the best way, I’d suppose that whenever you’re utilizing a element ex-blending inventory that had been bought to brokers or blenders as a ‘mix’ whereas it was single malt, simply to disallow the usage of the unique model identify, your individual blended malt will develop into a blended Scotch.
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