The award-winning Scotch whiskymaker has launched its newest expression. Delos, a fragile and soothing Scotch, pays homage to the flavours of yesteryear. A reimagined examine of Compass Field’s much-admired mix, Asyla (retired in 2018), Delos makes use of older shares to seize its beloved vibrancy and soothing sweetness. The second launch from the whisky maker’s Extinct Blends Quartet collection, Delos is a restricted version of 5,520 bottles.
Whiskymakers
You received’t truly discover the phrase ‘whiskymaker’ within the dictionary; that is Compass Field’s personal phrase. For 20 years now the progressive model has been mounted on reinventing Scotch whisky, taking the style to a extra attention-grabbing place. To take action they’ve sought the assistance of a number of the world’s most visionary bartenders and designers to essentially break floor and experiment past the anticipated. Compelling, but fully stunning, their ethos is essential of their identification as whiskymakers.
The Extinct Blends Quartet
Annually, Compass Field releases quite a lot of Restricted Editions, every with its personal identification; these are produced from very uncommon releases of some hundred bottles, and changed into a number of thousand bottles, permitting a wider market to expertise the essence of the unique. The Extinct Blends Quartet contains the characters of 4 very numerous expressions of blended Scotch. Two have been launched, with the rest because of be launched in late 2023 and early 2024.
Malt and grain
With an interaction of grain and malt, Delos poses the form of elegant and refined flavour that comes from the rarest and most idiosyncratic shares utilized in its creation; these are malt whiskies from the esteemed Glen Elgin, Imperial and Miltonduff distilleries. Having been aged in American oak barrels, they possess a candy but mellow combination of ripe pear, pineapple, orange, and vanilla notes. The maturity of the grain whisky alternatively, builds to disclose guava, heather honey and chai spices.
Paying homage to Delos’ roots
Delos is called after the Greek island presupposed to be the birthplace of the god Apollo, a wonderful place that’s prolific with mosaics and ruined historical temples. Consultant of Asyla’s serenity as a whisky, the Delos expression is mixed to entice the senses with meditative flavours that embody its namesake.
A lyre on the label
The unique Asyla label has been remembered within the packaging design, its label artwork that includes the identical feminine lute participant, however this time in mosaic type, as a nod to the isle of Delos. And within the new interpretation, she performs a lyre, an instrument linked to Apollo. Lastly, the define of the tiles are damaged away to depict the coastlines of Delos and Greece.
James Saxon, the lead whiskymaker at Compass Field commented: “Whereas impressed by the model and recipe construction of Asyla, Delos has richer and rounder flavours from utilizing older shares of whiskies which amplify the character, bringing extra grandeur to it and making it extra resonant. The fragile mouthfeel and transportive aromas inside Delos are however familiarly scrumptious. For me, sipping Delos appears like a vacation.”
Delos is accessible at an RRP of £265 and an ABV of 49%). Discover out extra concerning the assortment at compassboxwhisky.com
