Blended Scotch Peat Monster Arcana Limited Edition
⏳ Drikkevindue
As a high-quality distilled spirit, it does not age further in the bottle and can be enjoyed immediately or kept indefinitely when stored properly.
🍽️ Mad & Vin-match
Blue cheese, smoked salmon, dark chocolate
✨ Tekniske specifikationer
The Peat Monster Arcana is a captivating limited-edition release from the avant-garde blending house Compass Box, created to celebrate their 20th anniversary. This expression represents a bold experiment in wood management and maturation: a parcel of the classic Peat Monster blend was intentionally left to age for an additional two years in custom-toasted French oak casks—a technique typically reserved for unpeated whiskies. This 'secret' experiment yielded a remarkably complex spirit where the fierce, medicinal peat smoke of Islay is beautifully tempered and enriched by the sweet, spicy, and waxy notes of French oak. Combined with mature single malts from legendary distilleries like Talisker, Miltonduff, and Ardbeg, Arcana offers a brilliant, multi-layered narrative of smoke, spice, and oak, redefining what a peated Scotch can be.
🍾 Om vinhuset / producenten
Compass Box er et banebrydende skotsk whisky blending-hus med base i London, grundlagt i 2000 af den amerikanske iværksætter og tidligere vinhandler John Glaser. Virksomheden fungerer som en uafhængig boutique-whiskymager frem for et traditionelt destilleri og udvælger enestående single malt- og grain-whiskyer fra hele Skotland. Her nytænkes blending-kunsten gennem kreativ fadmodning, skræddersyede franske egetræsfade og et kompromisløst fokus på gennemsigtighed. Compass Box har udfordret de traditionelle konventioner i whiskyverdenen med sin progressive filosofi og håndværksmæssige tilgang, hvilket har resulteret i en alsidig portefølje, der hyldes for sin levende innovation og kompleksitet. Blandt husets mest roste signaturaftapninger findes Hedonism, en skelsættende blended grain whisky, samt anerkendte blended malts som The Peat Monster og The Spice Tree.
🍷 Alkoholprocent (ABV)
46%