Please note: the bottle comes without the plastic casing
If there’s one thing Compass Box loves to do, it’s pulling stunts to go against the increasing regulations in the Scotch industry. Compass Box The Last Vatted Malt is the very last Scotch whisky that carries the obsolete title ‘vatted malt’. On the 23nd of November 2011, new regulations prohibited the use of the term ‘Vatted Malt’. A vatted malt differs from a blended whisky in that a blend can contain grain, while a vatted malt consists solely of malts. The Last Vatted Malt is a blend of malts from the Speyside distillery Glenallachie and the Caol Ila distillery on Islay. It consists for 78% of a 26-year-old Caol Ila, distilled in 1984 and matured in American oak hogsheads; and for 22% of a 36-year-old Glenallachie, distilled in 1974 and matured in a first-fill sherry butt. The whisky was ceremoniously bottled at midnight on the 22nd of November 2011 at a cask strength of 53.7%. Only 1323 bottles have been released.
