Compass Box Menagerie Blended Malt Limited Edition 46%/ 0.7l
- In January 2021 Compass Box Whisky Company launched another unique blended malt, Menagerie. This time James Saxton, Compass Box lead whisky maker searched for malts with a touch of the wild about them.
Product description
In January 2021, Compass Box Whisky Co. came up with another interesting creation. Menagerie is to showcase “the wild side of Scotch whisky tamed by the blending process.”
The ingredients of this blended malt are: Mortlach, re-charred ex-bourbon barrels (42.6%); Deanston, re-fill hogshead casks (14.6%); Deanston butt re-fill casks (2.5%); Glen Elgin re-charred ex-bourbon barrels (13.1%), Glen Elgin butt re-fill casks (5%); Laphroaig re-charred hogshead casks (5.4%) and Highland Malt Blend (16.8%); the latter consisting of Clynelish, Dailuaine and Teaninich single malts. These components were aged for between 11 and 20 years and 7,741 bottles were released.
Aroma : fruity with a subtle hint of peat, peaches, pears, apples, cherries, vanilla, honey, walnuts, cinnamon, a hint of cocoa, traces of damp hay and wax.
Palate : fruity, grapes, apples, honeydew melon, milk chocolate, honey, vanilla, white pepper, anise, green tea, lemongrass and a hint of smoke in the background.
Finish: quite long, sweet and spicy, with notes of vanilla, toffee, candied ginger, pepper, leather, peat and oak.