{"id":1141,"date":"2013-09-20T15:04:57","date_gmt":"2013-09-20T20:04:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mark.abear.net\/blog\/?p=1141"},"modified":"2013-09-27T15:25:54","modified_gmt":"2013-09-27T20:25:54","slug":"an-unexpected-balvenie-tasting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mark.abear.net\/blog\/2013\/09\/an-unexpected-balvenie-tasting\/","title":{"rendered":"An Unexpected Balvenie Tasting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mark.abear.net\/blog\/?attachment_id=1153#main\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1153\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1153\" alt=\"Balvenie Lineup\" src=\"http:\/\/mark.abear.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Balvenie-Lineup-300x200.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mark.abear.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Balvenie-Lineup-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mark.abear.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Balvenie-Lineup-100x66.jpg 100w, https:\/\/mark.abear.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Balvenie-Lineup.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>While at Trinity Hall Irish Pub last night for the Highland Park tasting event, I met Jason Stein, the Balvenie Brand Ambassador. \u00a0When the event was concluded, the following pours were delivered to our table complements of Jason:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Balvenie 12 Year Old Double Wood &#8211; $44<\/li>\n<li>Balvenie 14 Year Old Caribbean Cask &#8211; $57<\/li>\n<li>Balvenie 15 Year Old Single Barrel &#8211; $70<\/li>\n<li>Balvenie 17 Year Old Double Wood &#8211; $110<\/li>\n<li>Balvenie 21 Year Old Port Wood &#8211; $200<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It was a good move on his part because they were all very good. \u00a0The only Highland Park offering that was clearly better was the 30 Year Old. \u00a0I&#8217;ll be exploring more of the Balvenie line as a result of this surprise tasting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While at Trinity Hall Irish Pub last night for the Highland Park tasting event, I met Jason Stein, the Balvenie Brand Ambassador. \u00a0When the event was concluded, the following pours were delivered to our table complements of Jason: Balvenie 12 Year Old Double Wood &#8211; $44 Balvenie 14 Year Old Caribbean Cask &#8211; $57 Balvenie &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mark.abear.net\/blog\/2013\/09\/an-unexpected-balvenie-tasting\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[16,18,115],"class_list":["post-1141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-whiskey","tag-single-malt","tag-speyside","tag-the-balvenie"],"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p364aH-ip","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mark.abear.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mark.abear.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mark.abear.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mark.abear.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mark.abear.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1141"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mark.abear.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1156,"href":"https:\/\/mark.abear.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1141\/revisions\/1156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mark.abear.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mark.abear.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mark.abear.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}