Compass Box Phenomenology Scotch WhiskyCompass Box has been working on a blend of single malts that combines seemingly dissonant flavor profiles, but together creates something compelling. They landed on a recipe that elicited a surprising range of reactions and descriptions, each person taking away something different from the whisky. Rather than try to settle on whose perceptions were right or wrong, Compass Box is inspired by the phenomenological school of thought to consider how

and then ‘finished’ in casks that previously held Caribbean rum

Initial hints of butter and corn bread give way to caramel and cinnamon notes

mellow flavor profile that has notes of caramel

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it has launched an innovative new cognac which is finished in authentic new American Tennessee Oak barrels for a minimum of six months

roasted nuts

600 feet of elevation—which is really

After the last bottle has been sold

this 1991 bottling from the Bunnahabhain distillery

Chateau Peynaud Bagnac

described as "“whiskey stone-fruit

it was too large for the room it was housed in so the distillery manager at the time simply cut the neck off and repositioned the still's arm