Hello,

Father's Day is a little over a week away, and in the run up we're always keen to recommend the perfect gifts for fathers everywhere. To help make this year really special we've taken the time to come up with some great offers, including some rather dapper sets of drams and a cracking selection of Signatory bottles – all with amazing discounts!

In other news, Compass Box take the stage this week, and are sure to steal the show as they enjoy the role of Featured Brand.

As always, new drams have been added to the site and you can now choose from a fantastic selection of Glengoyne, Compass Box and Springbank! Click the link to see our entire selection of whisky samples: http://www.masterofmalt.com/drinks-by-the-dram/

Enjoy!

- The Chaps at Master of Malt -

Featured Brand:
Compass Box

House Style
"An eclectic mix of blends and blended malts, the Compass Box style is all about rich, sweet and creamy whisky."

A little bit about the distillery…
Compass Box was born in 2000 as the brainchild of industry veteran John Glaser. John previously worked as US Marketing Manager for Johnnie Walker, so he knows a thing or two about the whisky industry. Whilst working for the brand, he gained a great passion for Scotch whisky.

When he founded Compass Box, he started making whisky in very small batches, blending unusual casks together to create truly original products. John conducted all sorts of experiments in a bid to break from tradition.

It was this iconoclasm that landed the company in a spot of bother with the Scotch Whisky Association after the release of Compass Box Spice Tree - a toasty, spicy whisky made by inserting charred oak staves into barrels of maturing whisky.

The practice of inserting staves into the casks ended with a debate between the SWA and Compass Box, Compass Box arguing that they were making their product with top quality, well-aged whisky, and the SWA countering that the quality of the product wasn't the issue, just the break from tradition.

This pretty much sums up Compass Box's approach. It's all about quality and not convention. The results, well, they're astonishing. Take Compass Box Hedonism, a blended grain whisky (the first time we'd ever tried such a thing) which is as delectable and lavish as the name suggests. It's a blend of grain whisky from several famed distilleries (including Cameronbridge and Cambus), and it was matured in first fill bourbon barrels and American oak hogsheads. In John's own words it's "a rich, sweet, alluring whisky, redolent of vanilla, pastry cream and coconut."

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