Behind all the most exquisite patisseries are test kitchens, where delicious creations are invented, and it's much the same for whisky blenders! Straight out of the Compass Box test kitchen, Nectarosity is a blended Scotch whisky combining spirit from the likes of Linkwood, Cameronbridge, Girvan, Clynelish, and Balmenach, and it's brimming with notes of sweet honeyed fruit, butterscotch, and cinnamon pastries.
This whisky is intended to be a pastry of a dram and we get that immediately on the nose, with frangipane, croissant, pineapple cubes, cinnamon, and apricot yoghurt.
Generous layers of fruit lead the way, with juicy peach and nectarine, poached pear, and tropical notes of pineapple.
The finish gently waves away with tropical fruit, warm pastries, and marzipan.
Bakery beauty, like waking up covered in icing dust and a fruity creamy mess. Oddly nostalgic, buns for tea, that kind of memory. It’s the grain, of course, a la Hedonism, but this is fruity summer loveliness, not wild Bacchanalia. Perfect for those long grey winter days when you’re waiting for the seasons to change.
