Compass Box Flaming Heart Second Limited Release 48.9%

Notes - Limited Release FH16 MMVII - The first letters, "FH" represents "Flaming Heart", the "16" tells you the age of the oldest whisky in the batch, and the "MMVII" stands for Roman numerals indicating this batch was bottled in 2007. This is a blend of only single malts from the villages of Port Askaig (Islay) for the smoke & peat, Brora and Longmorn for the richness and spice-fruit complexity. Aged up to 16 years, the Islay whisky from refill American oak hogsheads, other malts from new French oak. John Glaser's Notes: "It's a six cask malt whisky batch in which four of the casks come from our new French oak maturation trials. I found that these casks complement (in an extraordinary and dramatic way) casks of heavily peated Islay malt whisky! In "Flaming Heart" you'll find an amalgam: You'll detect the peatiness of our favourite Islay malt whisky distillery....and you'll pick up malty and fruity notes of one or two of our favourite Highland malt distilleries....and you'll definitely pick up aromas that remind you of clove and cardamom and cinnamon alongside dried fruit character and stone fruit character....you'll experience a big, full palate of flavour, a touch sweet but balanced....and very long. It's one of those whiskies that immediately calls you back to the glass for another. Which is rather amazing, given it's bottled at 48.9%! We've bottled just over 350 six-pack cases of "Flaming Heart" in 70cl bottles, which means it will only be available in the parts of Europe, Asia and Australia where we have importers (Apologies to US and Canada.) We don't know if we'll be able to make this again due to the special nature of these casks, so please enjoy it while it lasts!"
 
     

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