Compass Box Reimagines Great King Street Scotch Line

Bourbon

April 8, 2021

Compass Box Scotch Whiskymakers will reimagine a pair of popular expressions with a redesign and simplified names: Artist Blend and Glasgow Blend.

Previously known as the Great King Street collection, the whiskys were first introduced in the early 2010s. The spirits were created by Compass Box founder and whiskymaker John Glaser and reflect the preferred whisky styles of those in Edinburgh and Glasgow.

“When I first created these blended Scotch whiskies, I was inspired by the writing of Aeneas MacDonald in his classic 1930 book, Whisky,” Glaser said in a news release. “MacDonald wrote about the distinct differences in whisky taste between the citizens of Edinburgh and Glasgow. He also detailed what blended Scotch whisky recipes were like at the time. This was all hugely inspirational to me when I first created Artist Blend and Glasgow Blend, and it made these whiskies, in effect, an homage to Scotland’s two biggest cities.”

Both Artist Blend and Glasgow Blend are bottled at 43% ABV and carry an SRP of $38.

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