![]() ![]() So Compass Box had to modify how they were doing things, and you can now need to email them requesting the age details of their blends. ![]() So for example a whisky that is a blend of 10-year old and 20-year old spirit can only have an age statement of 10 years, it can't legally state "a mix of 50% 10-year old and 50% 20-year old whisky". The problem with this is that according to the SWA regulations, an age statement can only declare the age of the youngest whisky in the bottle. The issue arose when Compass Box started releasing the full details of the component whiskies in their blends, and stating the age and proportion of each component whisky. ![]() ![]() Since that last review Compass Box have caused a bit of a stir, in a positive way, by bringing light to the issue of "transparency" in Scotch whisky, specifically with regard to age statements. Unfortunately that's mainly because we don't see the vast majority of their bottlings in Australia, with almost all of their releases being exclusive to a certain large retailer. It's been a while since I last mentioned Glasgow-based whisky blender & rule-bender Compass Box, a few years in fact, last appearing when I reviewed their very nice Peat Monster blended malt. An ambitious name for a blended grain whisky perhaps, but we're about to find out. "Hedonism" - the pursuit of pleasure & self-indulgence. ![]()
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