Releasing the Dragon Whisky Blending

The tasting begins with a sensorial tasting experience of a beautiful whisky from America called Buffalo Trace. The sensorial experience takes Guests through the flavours and aromas that are found in bourbons, including mint, chocolate, coffee, cinnamon and toffee. Guests first taste and smell the fresh ingredients and then test their newly trained palates by tasting the bourbon.

Guests are then given a brief and interactive understanding of Scotch Whiskies, especially the different regions and how these climates and distilling methods influence flavour.
The blending competition begins and the Guests are split into teams of four. They are given the four blending cask strength whiskies, mineral water and a science kit to measure precise amounts of each ingredient to create a 50 ml whisky, which they must label and name. The whiskies are tasted and judged by the Hosts of the tasting and a winner announced.

The Guests are then introduced to the Compass Box Range, created by the world whisky innovator of the year John Glaser. Through tasting these beautiful whiskies an understanding of the intricate task of blending whiskies is taught. The whiskies in the Compass Box Range each have a unique story to tell and their flavour is directly compared to their origin and innovative aging and blending methods.