Hey
everyone. You may or may not have heard about it but a week ago Glasgow based
blending company Compass Box have launched a campaign for more transparency in Scotch whisky. Those of you who are
up to date of what’s happening in the world of whisky may wonder why I publish
this article now when the campaign started last week and there have been
several articles about it. That has different reasons. The first reason is that
I am just amazingly lazy and as a student a natural born procrastinator J. The second and more serious reason
is that I didn’t want that important topic to be hot for a moment with
thousands of articles being written about it and a few days later everyone
forgetting about it. The truth is that I started writing on this article just
when the campaign started and waited until now to try and keep the topic hot. I
think this is a great campaign that is worth supporting so I will explain the
background to you.
It all
started in October 2015 when Compass Box released two limited editions; Flaming
Heart 5th edition and “This is not a luxury whisky”. The special
thing about those two releases was that Compass Box decided to publish the
whole recipe of the blends.
This action earned them a lot of compliments from all over the whisky world because it was full transparency which was really nice if you think about all those NAS (no age statement) whiskies that are released at the moment.
