""The story of Brûlée Royale sort of starts with a different expression of ours called Nectarosity, which is all about pastry," says Samuel Travers, lead Compass Box whiskymaker. "With pastry, it's all about the precision involved. Cooking, you kind of cook with the heart, but with pastry, it's so precise. We're all about adding color to imagination, and the precision that goes into blending whiskey and the storytelling involved in whisky is quite analogous to the precision in pastry.""
"As a nod to the dessert's origins, the Brûlée Royale packaging features a "surreal scene of alchemy and mastery" within the Versailles Palace kitchens where Chef François Massialot created his crème brûlée."
""If you read the above list of single malts and wondered how a smoky Islay whisky like Ardbeg plays into the mix, it's just a hint (0.5% of the final blend) but an important ingredient."
Compass Box Brûlée Royale is a blended malt designed to evoke crème brûlée using single malts from Clynelish, Benrinnes, Speyburn and a 0.5% inclusion of Ardbeg. All component malts were aged in American oak barrels including recharred, refill, first-fill bourbon and second-fill. Compass Box was founded in London in 2000 to revive and modernize the art of blending, with founder John Glaser leaving the company in 2024. The blend draws inspiration from pastry precision and from Nectarosity, emphasizing precise blending techniques analogous to pastry work. Packaging references Versailles kitchens and Chef François Massialot.
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