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The label on many Compass Box bottles reads "Blended Malt Scotch Whisky" — not "single malt," nor simply "blended Scotch." That is no coincidence: it is precisely the category in which Compass Box excels. What does that term actually mean,...
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Compass Box has no distillery, no stills, and no grain stock of its own. What the brand does have: a former Diageo marketer with a mission to make blended Scotch exciting again. This is the story of how John Glaser...
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Long before Duncan Taylor existed, a Scottish blend already bore the name Black Bull. When Duncan Taylor revived the brand decades later, it deliberately chose not to pursue a modern restart, but to remain faithful to a nineteenth-century recipe. This...
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A standard whisky cask easily holds 200 liters. An Octave cask holds only about 50 — a quarter of that. That difference in size sounds small, but it has major consequences for what ends up in the glass. Duncan Taylor...
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Almost ninety years ago, Duncan Taylor started out not as a bottler, but as a cask trader in Glasgow. It was only decades later, when a former distillery employee took over the company and brought it to his hometown, that...
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