{"id":1395,"date":"2014-05-06T19:30:48","date_gmt":"2014-05-07T00:30:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mark.abear.net\/blog\/?p=1395"},"modified":"2014-06-10T20:50:03","modified_gmt":"2014-06-11T01:50:03","slug":"glenmorangie-tasting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mark.abear.net\/blog\/2014\/05\/glenmorangie-tasting\/","title":{"rendered":"Glenmorangie Tasting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mark.abear.net\/blog\/?attachment_id=1431#main\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1431\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1431\" src=\"http:\/\/mark.abear.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/22-2-300x202.jpg\" alt=\"Glenmorangie\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mark.abear.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/22-2-300x202.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mark.abear.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/22-2-100x67.jpg 100w, https:\/\/mark.abear.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/22-2.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Tonight was another great tasting event at Trinity Hall Irish Pub, with the current Glenmorangie product range on the slate. Dan Crowell was on hand to describe each pour: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Original ($28) &#8211; 10 year old\u00a0ex-bourbon cask\u2026 nose of light honey and malt; taste of orange, honey, lemon drop, mild spice, mild wood, nice malt flavor, mildly dry finish\u2026 a drop of water reveals a floral aspect and bitterness, but it&#8217;s better without it<\/li>\n<li>La Santa ($37) &#8211; 10 years in ex-bourbon cask, then finished for 2 years in ex-sherry\u00a0cask\u2026 definite sherry nose with plum, cherry, vanilla, raisin\u2026 taste of apple, plum, charred oak, date\u2026 finish is mildly spicy with milk chocolate<\/li>\n<li>Quinta Ruban($37) &#8211; 10 years in ex-bourbon cask, then finished for 2 years in port cask\u2026 milder nose with prune\u2026 taste of prune, spearmint, honey, cocoa, honey, shortbread, vanilla<\/li>\n<li>Nectar D&#8217;Or (10 years in ex-bourbon cask, then finished for 2 years in sauternes cask\u2026 nose of honeysuckle, pear, vanilla\u2026 taste of pear, apple, vanilla, wood is toned down a lot, ginger, mild grass\u2026 bit sweeter and more onteresting than original<\/li>\n<li>18 Year Old ($76) &#8211; 15 year old ex-bourbon cask, then 30% transferred to ex-Oloroso sherry casks\u2026 nice fruity nose, apple, plum, fig\u2026 taste of spice, white grape, marmalade, ginger\u2026 finish is mildly spicy, leathery and slightly sour<\/li>\n<li>Ealanta ($186) &#8211; 19 year old virgin oak&#8230; nose of vanilla, far cherry\u2026 taste of vanilla, caramel, honey, apple, pear, ginger, candied fruit, truffles\u2026 finish is spicy, long, fruity, mildly leathery\u2026 Excellent!<\/li>\n<li>Companta ($86) &#8211; no age statement, finished in Grand Cru and Rasteau casks&#8230; nose of light charred oak, overripe apple\u2026 taste of lemon, grapefruit, honey, candied ginger, clove, black pepper, tannins\u2026 opens up with a drop of water<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As a bonus, we tasted a Rasteau in order to identify the influence in Companta:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Alfio Moriconi Cote de Rh\u00f4nes Rasteau &#8211; fortified wine, sour red grape, viney\/green stem, cherry, plum\u2026 not a great fortified wine<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>While Ealanta was great (and hard to find now), the rest of the line wasn&#8217;t so impressive. \u00a0I think that Quinta Ruban and La Santa are good values, but there are other sherry finished malts that\u00a0compete well with\u00a0La Santa in the price range or just a bit higher, like GlenDronach 12 or MacAllan 12. Quinta Ruban stands out as one of the few port wood finishes in this price range, so that makes it a bit more interesting. \u00a0I would definitely pass on Companta and the 18 Year Old is just a bit too laid back with sour notes that shouldn&#8217;t be there. \u00a0Nectar D&#8217;Or is an interesting whisky with sweet notes that become more prominent over time. \u00a0I tend to enjoy it initially, but I can&#8217;t have it too often because of the sweetness that tends to be out of balance after spending more time with it. \u00a0Finally, I&#8217;ve decided that The Original isn&#8217;t so good after all&#8230; get the superior\u00a0Monkey Shoulder instead for a few dollars less.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tonight was another great tasting event at Trinity Hall Irish Pub, with the current Glenmorangie product range on the slate. Dan Crowell was on hand to describe each pour: The Original ($28) &#8211; 10 year old\u00a0ex-bourbon cask\u2026 nose of light honey and malt; taste of orange, honey, lemon drop, mild spice, mild wood, nice malt &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mark.abear.net\/blog\/2014\/05\/glenmorangie-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_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[76,17,164,16],"class_list":["post-1395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-whiskey","tag-glenmorangie","tag-highland","tag-kininvie","tag-single-malt"],"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p364aH-mv","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mark.abear.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1395","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=1395"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/mark.abear.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1395\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1455,"href":"https:\/\/mark.abear.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1395\/revisions\/1455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mark.abear.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mark.abear.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mark.abear.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}