Compass Box - Three Year Old Deluxe, 2016, 49.2% (WF90)

Compass Box Three Year Old Deluxe

Type - blended Malt Whisky
Bottled - 2016
Age - 3YO
Strength - 49.2%
Content - 700ml

Whiskyfun- 90 pts

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Online tasting note for reference-

Nose- immediately waxy and recognizable. It shows big notes of orange blossom honey and sweet baked apples and ripe yellow plums. There is a very light hint of peat in the background, which brings it close to some of the latest Brora expressions (which were closer to Clynelish sometimes, if you know what I mean). Just a hint of creamy vanilla and cinnamon pastry. Deluxe indeed.

Mouth- good mix of dry and fruity notes. Orchard fruits again (apples, greengages) but also light tropical touches (grapefruit, tangerine), balanced by some mineral notes and a dry grassiness. Pepper and clove, just a hint of vanilla and fresh oak shavings, perhaps a tad younger than expected? Not exactly peaty, but there’s an ashy side to it.

Finish- more bitterness of the grapefruit and waxy lemons now, rather zesty with the riper fruits and oak spices in the very end.