Compass Box Ultramarine The Extinct Blends Quartet Limited Edition Blended Scotch Whisky

Compass Box Ultramarine: The Extinct Blends Quartet Limited Edition Blended Scotch Whisky

This limited edition blended Scotch whisky from Compass Box is part of its Extinct Blends Quartet, a series honouring previous styles of famous blends from decades past. Ultramarine is a reimagining of an ‘iconic deluxe blended Scotch’ that had its first bottlings in the late ’80s and early ’90s one for the Scotch sleuths among you to ponder. This blend draws on malt and grain whiskies from the Caol Ila, Girvan, Glendullan and Cameronbridge distilleries along with a whole medley of pre-blended whiskies from the Compass Box stocks, for a peaty, sherried expression. Bottled at 51% ABV, it’s naturally coloured and non-chill filtered, with an outturn of 5,430 bottles.

Ultramarine takes as its inspiration the antique Sherry and pipe tobacco notes of a deluxe blended Scotch, first released in the late 1980s.

Toffee, antique polished oak and complex peatiness are primary aromas, with a palate of roasted pecan, raisins and smoke.

As good at home sipped from a hipflask on the coastal cliffs of Scotland as it is after a days whale-watching in the waters off California.