Head to head · unusually close flavour match
Compass Box Artist Blend vs Teeling Small Batch
No flavour axis separates these two, so the choice is price and occasion.
Compiled by WhiskeyCask Editorial · Last verified 2026-07-30
Specifications side by side
| Compass Box Artist Blend | Teeling Small Batch | |
|---|---|---|
| Category | Blended scotch | Irish blend |
| Origin | Scotland | Dublin, Ireland |
| Age | No age statement | No age statement |
| Strength | 43% ABV | 46% ABV |
| Cask | First-fill ex-bourbon barrel, custom medium-toast French oak, re-vatted Palo Cortado sherry-seasoned butt | Ex-bourbon barrel, Central American rum cask |
| Bottle | 700 ml | 700 ml |
| RRP observed | £37 | £32 |
| Per 10cl | £5.29 | £4.57 |
| Per litre of alcohol | £123 | £99 |
| Chill-filtered | No | No |
What separates them
Different countries: Compass Box Artist Blend from Scotland, Teeling Small Batch from Dublin, Ireland.
Compass Box Artist Blend is a blended scotch, Teeling Small Batch a irish blend.
Neither carries an age statement, so neither discloses its youngest spirit.
Cask as each producer describes it: Compass Box Artist Blend in first-fill ex-bourbon barrel, custom medium-toast french oak and re-vatted palo cortado sherry-seasoned butt, Teeling Small Batch in ex-bourbon barrel and central american rum cask.
Neither is chill-filtered.
Colour: Compass Box Artist Blend natural colour, Teeling Small Batch silent.
What the price buys
Compass Box Artist Blend is £5.00 dearer a bottle than Teeling Small Batch.
Strength keeps that ordering: £99 a litre of pure alcohol for Teeling Small Batch against £123.
Across the 32 bottles we can cost this way, Compass Box Artist Blend is 10th cheapest and Teeling Small Batch 3rd cheapest.
Flavour, compared
View as table
| Axis | Compass Box Artist Blend | Teeling Small Batch |
|---|---|---|
| Peaty | 2 | 0 |
| Sweet | 6 | 7 |
| Fruity | 7 | 6 |
| Spicy | 5 | 5 |
| Woody | 5 | 4 |
| Sherried | 4 | 3 |
| Cereal | 6 | 5 |
| Oily | 6 | 7 |
No axis reaches the 3-point gap we call meaningful. Widest is peaty, 2 against 0.
Level only on spicy, 5 each.
Each bottle in its own right
Compass Box Artist Blend
Bright orchard fruit and cream with a dry, spiced finish. Proof that a blend can be interesting.
Compass Box publishes the complete recipe by percentage, which no large blender does: 45% Cameronbridge grain, 22% Linkwood, 10% Clynelish, 10% Balmenach, 8% a Highland malt blend in custom French oak, 5% Linkwood in a Palo Cortado butt. Component ages are the one thing conspicuously absent. Formerly sold as Great King Street Artist's Blend.
Full record →Teeling Small Batch
Vanilla and spiced rum sweetness at 46%, non-chill-filtered. Remarkable for the money.
Fully aged in ex-bourbon, then married in Central American rum casks for 'up to 12 months' — note that is a ceiling, not a fixed period.
Full record →No overlap in what we list them for: Compass Box Artist Blend for value at 43%, transparency and first blended scotch, Teeling Small Batch for value at 46%, first irish whiskey and highball.
Where these specifications come from
Producer and retailer pages for Compass Box Artist Blend and Teeling Small Batch: compassboxwhisky.com, cdn.shopify.com, teelingwhiskey.com. Figures are what those pages published when we last checked them, on 2026-07-30.