With the two different styles of Port Dundas grain (ex-Bourbon and Rejuvenated Hogshead) playing the part of the traditional single malts the Compass Box Hedonism brings something interesting and alluring to the grain whisky category.
Not a single grain, but a blended grain, Hedonism contains grain from two different distilleries with the ex-Bourbon Cameron Bridge taking more of a traditional grain role and making up 66% of the blend.
It’s the one area in whisky where you’re able to get Scotch at 30, 40 or 50+ years of age for relatively small sums of money and Compass Box Hedonism has been there, quietly making subtle waves for years. An excellent product that will probably fully satisfy the lovers of the genre.Over the last 5ish years the grain whisky category has been heating up. Having said that, here I found myself with a good blended, balanced, pleasant, but that I wasn’t crazy about. I’m not crazy about grains, and this inevitably influences my approach to whisky: what I write is always the result of my very personal feelings, and should be taken as such. Medium-long finish of nuts, vanilla, coconut, bergamot. Along the length the alcohol tingles slightly and the flavours become softer, like vanilla biscuit. The palate starts with a hint of pepper and nutmeg on a good texture of vanilla cream, cereal biscuits, liquorice root, anise, almonds, bergamot, sugar paste. The nose opens with a sour vein reminiscent of kefir, followed by hints of coconut, cashews, nutmeg, vanilla, sugar paste, lime, pencil shavings. As is the bottler’s custom, the exact composition of the blend is available for each release, which you can download in pdf here.
The mix, as I mentioned above, changes from year to year, varying the distilleries of origin and the proportions, leaving as a fixed feature only the ex-Bourbon casks and recharred American oak. Ageing casks: Ex-Bourbon first fill and recharredĪfter a long time, I have a blended whisky from the Compass Box masters in my glass in an unusual version: instead of a malt, this time it’s a grain blended.Īn annual release, with a slightly different recipe for each batch, this is Glaser’s first bottling, back in 2000, based on grain whiskies produced by Cameronbridge, The North British Distillery, Port Dundas, Invergordon, Strathclyde, Dumbarton and Girvan.
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