Compass Box The Extinct Blends Quartet – Ultramarine

Compass Box Ultramarine, Limited Edition

Blended Scotch of the Past, Reimagined
Ultramarine is inspired by an iconic deluxe blended Scotch, in particular the first bottlings of the late 1980s and early 1990s. Harnessing old school Sherry casks and ethereal peatiness, Ultramarine highlights the enchanting possibilities, and the breadth of flavours and textures, afforded by combinations of aged malt and grain whiskies.

FLAVOUR PROFILE
Toffee, antique polished oak and complex peatiness are primary aromas, with a palate of roasted pecan, raisins and smoke.

SERVING RECOMMENDATIONS
As good at home sipped from a hipflask on the coastal cliffs of Scotland as it is after a day’s whale-watching in the waters off California.

TECHNICAL DETAILS
Bottled at 51% ABV.
Natural colour.
Not chill-filtered.
Blended Scotch Whisky.
A limited edition of 5,430 bottles.
August 2022.

LEAD WHISKYMAKER
James Saxon.

Welcome to our flavour time machine
Bottles of Scotch whisky are time capsules. Even more than single malts, blends can reflect the production methods and philosophies that prevailed in Scotland during specific eras. Scotch is constantly evolving, and blends aggregate these trends and adaptations.

Fashions change, and formulae follow suit. Blended whiskies of the 1970s, ’80s and ’90s are very different to today’s versions, even when the brand name remains the same. The Extinct Blends Quartet reimagines four of our favourite blended Scotches from yesteryear, using some of our rarest and most idiosyncratic stocks of whisky.

Ultramarine takes as its inspiration the antique Sherry and pipe tobacco notes of a deluxe blended Scotch, first released in the late 1980s.

Powerfully flavoursome and impressively textural, the first release in the Extinct Blends Quartet relies on mature malts from the Caol Ila and Glendullan distilleries; aged grains from the Cameronbridge and Girvan distilleries, as well as a medley of pre-blended stocks.