{"id":1225,"date":"2013-12-03T20:09:52","date_gmt":"2013-12-04T02:09:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mark.abear.net\/blog\/?p=1225"},"modified":"2013-12-04T13:47:52","modified_gmt":"2013-12-04T19:47:52","slug":"balvenie-12-year-old-doublewood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mark.abear.net\/blog\/2013\/12\/balvenie-12-year-old-doublewood\/","title":{"rendered":"Balvenie 12 Year Old Doublewood"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1231\" style=\"width: 248px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mark.abear.net\/blog\/?attachment_id=1231#main\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1231\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1231\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1231\" title=\"Balvenie 12 Doublewood\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/mark.abear.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Balvenie-12-Doublewood-238x300.jpg\" width=\"238\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mark.abear.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Balvenie-12-Doublewood-238x300.jpg 238w, https:\/\/mark.abear.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Balvenie-12-Doublewood-79x100.jpg 79w, https:\/\/mark.abear.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Balvenie-12-Doublewood.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 238px) 100vw, 238px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1231\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Speyside Single Malt, 12 Years, 40% ABV, $40<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The second whisky is Balvenie&#8217;s 12 Year Old Doublewood (there&#8217;s also a 17 Year Old now). I&#8217;ve had a taste of this before, but I can really spend some time with it this time. Over the aging span this whisky is first put in ex-bourbon casks, then transferred to first-fill Oloroso sherry casks for the remainder of the time (they don&#8217;t indicate how long in each).<\/p>\n<p>The color is golden and it&#8217;s got a sweet grassy smell with notes of pear, apple, bitter orange, straw, burnt sugar, ginger, green pepper and a hint of smoke. I&#8217;m enjoying inhaling this one.<\/p>\n<p>The first sip confirms the fruits and ginger while adding a good bit of peppery spice at the end. There&#8217;s also a woody finish with a hint of white pepper. As I continue to sip, flavors of vanilla, honey, orange, plum, pear, apple and ginger develop. The finish becomes a bit sweeter with notes of burnt sugar, but is still mostly bitter wood and mildly hot. The sherry influence becomes more evident after a while but continues to be balanced by a dry tannins and spices. It improves mildly with each sip and keeps me interested and hunting for other flavors. Just a drop or two of water opens up the flavors, but I wouldn&#8217;t add more than that. It&#8217;s just fine straight and loses just a bit of spicy bite with the water.<\/p>\n<p>This is a very good whisky that I would enjoy again for sure. I think its a good value too at $40. Oh, and thanks to Gene for the sample.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The second whisky is Balvenie&#8217;s 12 Year Old Doublewood (there&#8217;s also a 17 Year Old now). I&#8217;ve had a taste of this before, but I can really spend some time with it this time. Over the aging span this whisky is first put in ex-bourbon casks, then transferred to first-fill Oloroso sherry casks for the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mark.abear.net\/blog\/2013\/12\/balvenie-12-year-old-doublewood\/\" 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-1225","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-jL","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mark.abear.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1225","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=1225"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mark.abear.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1232,"href":"https:\/\/mark.abear.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1225\/revisions\/1232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mark.abear.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mark.abear.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mark.abear.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}