The newest Restricted Version launched by Compass Field is the deeply flavoursome Ultramarine (RRP £295, 51% ABV), the primary in an bold and imaginative sequence known as the Extinct Blends Quartet. This sequence pays homage to sure types of Scotch from the previous, with Ultramarine taking its inspiration from a deluxe blended Scotch whisky first launched within the late Eighties. It is going to be accessible on cabinets from October with 5,982 bottles accessible worldwide.
In addition to arguing that sure ‘vintages’ of blended Scotch may be simply as worthy of veneration as distilleries that have been closed throughout the identical intervals, the Extinct Mix Quartet takes inspiration from characters and flavours which have vanished through the years. Within the sequence, 4 very completely different expressions of blended Scotch will likely be produced utilizing a few of Compass Field’s most valuable parcels of whisky.
The primary few batches of the mix on which Ultramarine is predicated drew from shares of malt and grain whisky that had constructed up as a part of Scotland’s ‘Whisky Loch’ of the late ‘70s and early ‘80s. Whereas nonetheless a captivating product at the moment, a compelling vintage high quality may be discovered within the earliest bottlings. It’s this old-school type, one revered by whisky fanatics, that has impressed Compass Field’s whiskymakers for Ultramarine.
To amass the load of physique and haunting smokiness required, Ultramarine makes use of well-aged malts and pre-blended parcels of Scotch whisky, each matured in Sherry casks, along with peated malts.
The whisky options outstanding aromas of toffee, vanilla and toasted oak, with impressions of a peaty malt kiln. Leathery dried mango builds following the primary sip with peat, roasted pecan and raisin. Proceedings have a tendency in a nuttier, spicier and smokier route with time.
James Saxon, lead whiskymaker says, “As whiskymakers and blenders, we take umbrage that closed single malt distilleries appeal to all of the adulation and explosive hammer costs at public sale. A distillery is rarely fully misplaced. As we see with Brora, Rosebank and Port Ellen, they are often revived – mash tuns may be refilled, stills heated up once more. Blends, although, are the richest time capsules Scotch whisky has, reflecting the concepts and sensibilities of the groups of those who made them, and the types of shares accessible to the blenders from yr to yr. Ultramarine and the whiskies that may come after it usually are not recreations – that isn’t doable. They’re as a substitute tributes, our method of reimagining the DNA of some nice blends of the previous.”
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