Compass Box The Peat Monster

Tasting Notes by The Whisky Exchange

• Nose

  Elegant peat smoke with coastal brine, orchard fruit and singed spice.

• Palate

  Smoky and earthy peat, sweet tropical fruit touches and floral notes.

• Finish

  Sweetness lingers, layered with smoke, fruit and delicate meadow-grass character.

Tasting Notes by Dr Whisky

• Cigarette smoking through a meal of scrambled eggs, scallops, and strawberry cheescake. Pears, a bag of marijuana, cinnamon.

  Sea salt, kelp, lemon cheesecake, a cloud of peat, peaches or nectarines, firesmoke.

  SUMMARY:

  Amazing balance from start to finish. Peat and iodine to fruit baskets then burning leaves or wood outdoors. Distinct compartments of flavour that harmonise masterfully, if all a bit too consonant, major thirds and fifths. Monstrous? Cookie monster, maybe.

These tasting notes are reproduced from drwhisky.blogspot.com