Compass Box - Ultramarine - 51%
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.
Ultramarine is part of The Extinct Blends Quartet range which reinvents four blends produced at the time, and different from the blends available today. Ultramarine is inspired by the old notes of Sherry and pipe tobacco of a luxury blend, released for the first time at the end of the 1980s. It is a blend of: 18.7% Bourbon barrels from the Caol Ila distillery, 17.2% first-fill Bourbon casks from the Girvan distillery, 15.6% Sherry casks from the Glendullan distillery, 10.8% Bourbon cask-aged grain blend, 9 % of a malt blend aged in Sherry casks, 7.9% of a Highland blend aged in toasted French oak casks, 6% of a grain whiskey from the Cameronbridge distillery aged in a toasted cask, 4 .8% hogshead cask from Speyburn distillery, 4.2% Sherry cask from Glen Ord distillery, 3.9% Sherry cask aged blend and 1.9% hogshead cask bousiné from the Miltonduff distillery.
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