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Score
Compass Box Phenomenology, 46%
Price: ● Issue: Spring 2018 ● Reviewer: Jonny McCormick ● Category: Blended Scotch Whisky
The nose has honey, caramelized apples, Pixy Stix, pears in cream, faint pepper, ground coriander, and salty driftwood. It's teeth-coating with golden syrup sugariness, the silky texture meting out pears, apples, sweet barley notes, and crunchy spices, before a vanilla phase gives way to black pepper, licorice, and smoke. Mouth-numbing finish of long-active spices over vanilla. (7,908 bottles)