Compass Box Orchard House Blended Malt Scotch Whisky, 70cl | Fruity & Fragrant | 46%

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We deliver to a number of international destinations including the USA. Please use the 'Change Location' link above for an estimate in your local currency or find out more about international delivery Finish: Decent length with apple orchard flavors stealing the show. This whisky lives up to its name! Scads of apple and pear flavors on the finish combine with delightful and delicious toasted oak and vanilla notes. Rating: 7/10, Very Good There’s something really extraordinary and compelling, and magical, a deep cultural history that nobody gets, nobody understands. I thought I could bring this discovery to the world by doing it on my own rather than with all the money we had at Johnnie Walker.” The art of making whisky: Compass Box’s Artist Blend To the credit of the Scotch Whisky Association, they had to do their job and tell us we couldn’t do that, and that’s when we started the campaign,” Glaser explains, referring to the 2016 Scotch Whisky Transparency petition. The goal was to persuade the industry to change the rules and allow producers to list more than the youngest liquid in the bottle on the label. It’s also soft and oily which makes for a pleasant drinking experience. If I had an “un-peated un-sherried” table Scotch this Compass Box Orchard House would probably be it. The Spaniard would hold the sherried/wine finished role and the peated honor would be Peat Monster. And now that I’ve said that out loud… I kind of want “table Scotch” to be more of a thing. At least in my house.

After university, Glaser was determined to become a wine maker in his US homeland – a desire that greatly influences his approach to whisky‐making today. But a wise word of advice from “a great friend and mentor of mine, Peter Holt” saw Glaser step out of the “long line of people trying to become wine makers in California” and into business school. From there, he secured a job in marketing with the world’s biggest blended Scotch whisky brand, Johnnie Walker.Our New Arrival this week is Orchard House, the newest core offering from Compass Box and the first to be made with whiskies entirely laid down by the bottler/blender. We tasted it with founder John Glaser, and found out how it earned its name. If any provision of these Terms is held invalid, the remainder of the Terms shall continue in full force and effect. Among the latest releases from the Whiskymakers (their coined term for their craft) at Compass Box is Orchard House, a blended malt that is a “monument to fresh fruitiness in Scotch whisky.” What I found in my glass was both unique and engaging. The Service has been prepared by us solely for information purposes to Members and the Service is based on information we consider reliable and we obtain the contents of the Service from a number of different third party sources (including Contributions), but we do not endorse, support, represent, warrant or guarantee the completeness, truthfulness, accuracy, or reliability of the Services and any information therein.

Nose: Waxy dried fruits: dried apricot, dried mango, dried coconut. Beeswax, fresh lime, vanilla taffy. After awhile, I can detect fresher fruits: pear, primarily, but maybe peach as well. Complex, but a little reticent. Scotch whisky brand Compass Box has always done things its own way, thanks to the ingenuity of its founder, John Glaser. As the company moves to the next stage in its development, SB meets the man with a vision. John Glaser, founder of Compass Box Our Service is an online platform which provides Members with information (e.g. bottle facts, market-indices, market values and prices) on (mostly) whisky and allows Members to add information to the platform. We do not sell, nor does the Service provide any option to buy, any alcoholic products.It is an idea that absolutely still has merit because age is not everything; older is not necessarily better, it’s just different,” Glaser insists. “It gives more interested drinkers an idea of what to expect.” It’s as idyllic as a Zoom tasting could be – held on the autumnal equinox, and John Glaser is sitting in what was to be the last of the summer (or is it autumn?) sun in his garden, chatting us through a momentous new release for Compass Box called Orchard House. Whisky Exploder

In each of his bottlings Glaser looks for a whisky that is “compelling”. Recent launches include August 2021’s Compass Box Orchard House, described as a fruit‐forward malt whisky, and a first for the company. Liquid was sourced from a number of distilleries known for their fruity flavour profiles, before being aged in a mix of Compass Box casks, including water‐rinsed, first‐fill ex‐Bourbon barrels, oloroso Sherry‐seasoned butts, and French oak custom barrels.When the US imposed punitive tariffs on Scotch whisky in 2019, the government specifically targeted single malts – not blends of any sort. For a company dedicated to blended whisky, such as Compass Box, it mercifully granted a ‘free pass’ from a tax that grossly affected exports in 2020. The decision to clamp down on single malts is demonstrative of the subcategory’s perception compared with its blended counterpart, notes Compass Box founder and whisky maker John Glaser. It brings together some of the fruitiest single malts. There’s 39% Linkwood, 29% Clynelish and 20% Benrinnes, all aged 8 years in first-fill bourbon barrels, plus minor parts of Aberlour (Oloroso seasoned butt), Caol Ila (first-fill bourbon) and their signature Highland Malt blend (custom French oak barrel).