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Compass Box Flaming Heart 2018 

Lot: 6129698

Compass Box Flaming Heart 2018 

Winning Bid: £110

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Region: 
Scotland
Bottler: 
Compass Box
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Bottled Strength: 
48.9%
Bottle Size: 
70cl
product Details

Compass Box Flaming Heart 2018 

Despite brands like Ballantine’s, Johnnie Walker and Chivas Regal remaining the best-selling Scotch whisky brands in the world, the blended Scotch category played second fiddle to the more fashionable single malt market in the second half of the 20th century. This remains largely true today, however in recent decades the perception of the blend has improved. The company at the forefront of this is Compass Box, founded in 2000 by John Glaser, a former marketing director for the Johnnie Walker brand. Their core range consists of The Spice Tree, The Peat Monster, Story of the Spaniard, Oak Cross and Hedonism blends, and they regularly produce limited editions as well. The company prides itself on its boundary-pushing approach to its creations, and on occasion, boundary-crossing creations, such as the original Spice Tree in 2005 which was banned by the Scotch Whisky Association for its use of suspended staves in casks. Despite investment from Bacardi in 2015, the company continues to push the envelope and rebel against tradition, most notably in its Scotch Whisky Transparency campaign, launched in 2016 following another disagreement with the SWA, this time about their detailed revealing of the recipes of their whiskies.

This was the sixth limited edition of Flaming Heart (first bottled in 2006). Released in 2018, this version of the blend reintroduced the sherry cask influence from the 2012 edition.

Transparency:

  • 7.7% Highland malt blend, custom French oak - heavy toast
  • 7.5% The Spice Tree Extravaganza parcel, refill sherry butt, custom French oak and refill American oak
  • 39.5% Caol Ila, refill barrel
  • 5.7% Clynelish, refill barrel
  • 28.7% Deanston, refill hogshead
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