Compass Box reviews

Tried this one at the Highland Stillhouse. I have a bottle in my safe and I hope it isn't like the one I tried. It had a beautiful nose, but the palette was musty and unpleasant with a short finish.…

Review is based on a freshly opened bottle.Nose: oak influence is big - sawn lumber, sawdust, a lot of vanilla, cloves, baked apple covered with lots of cinnamon, hot red pepperPalate: cardamom, vanilla…

In keeping with my blended theme for our March whisky club meeting I decided to try a Compass Box once more.I'd had the Compass Box Eleuthera and the Compass Box Hedonism before and found both of them…

You probably won’t encounter a review of Compass Box whiskies without the word “innovative” somewhere in the first paragraph, so let’s get it out of the way: they’re innovative! Innovative with cask…

Times were pleasant for the people there until finally one, a fiend out of hell, began to work his evil in the world. Grendel was the name of this grim demon haunting the marches, marauding round the…

Warm sweet, earthy arival. Nutty, veggietable, Iodine middle. Developes into long slow smokey oily finish that lingers.

Recently, John Hansell of Whisky Advocate, gave a very favorable rating to the latest bottlings of Oak Cross. I quite enjoyed the bottle that I had open, so I thought I would give a new bottling a try…

What a great whisky! This has easily become my go to daily dram, I love this stuff. Rich vanilla, granny smith apples, and maybe just a little bit of oaky spice on the backend, its simple as it’s stra…

Description: Over 50% malt, consisting of two northern highland and one Speyside malt along with the Lowland grain whisky. Mostly aged in first-fill American oak, but also toasted French oak and sherry…

Our whisky club that had met on the first Saturday of February had been a complete success. We'd enjoyed whiskies from just about every single whisky producing region in Scotland along with Irish.Ever…