{"id":162,"date":"2012-12-20T22:42:53","date_gmt":"2012-12-21T04:42:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mark.abear.net\/blog\/?p=162"},"modified":"2013-02-11T13:56:41","modified_gmt":"2013-02-11T19:56:41","slug":"st-isidore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mark.abear.net\/blog\/2012\/12\/st-isidore\/","title":{"rendered":"Saint Isidore"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mark.abear.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/20121220-224132.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full  \" title=\"Saint Isidore\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/mark.abear.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/20121220-224132.jpg\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Blended, No Age Statement, 41.4% ABV, $81<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I&#8217;m now 4 days behind schedule and feeling the pressure. My goal is to complete on time (i.e. the 24th)\u2026 that&#8217;s 9 drams in 5 days!<\/p>\n<p>St. Isidore has a sweet seaside aroma with just a puff of smoke. The salty sea air is sweetened by butterscotch and vanilla while smoky grass moves in the soft breeze (I can&#8217;t believe I just wrote that!). In any case, it smells great! I sense an Island influence for sure. The taste is quite nice and matches the aroma. It&#8217;s salty with a mild peated smoke component. The smoke lingers while the sweetness gently fades and leaves a salty woody flavor. There&#8217;s a bit of grass early on that builds a bit and slowly fades with the sweetness. Back to the sweet flavors, they come back after a bit of a peppery interlude and taste like honey, vanilla and toffee. After several sips, I note a slight bit of clove and the peppery finish takes on a definite ginger flavor. The bitterness of the finish is a bit strong with a leathery quality; otherwise, this is quite nice and easily the best blend I&#8217;ve had yet.<\/p>\n<p>This whisky has a unique story behind it:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The story of St Isidore and the bloggers blend all started one day when we were thinking about how to create our next whisky, when it suddenly hit us: ask the bloggers! These guys and gals are amongst the most knowledgeable, expert and, let&#8217;s face it, geekiest whisky lovers in the world! We called upon this incredible resource, and here&#8217;s how we did it&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"http:\/\/www.masterofmalt.com\/whiskies\/st-isidore-the-bloggers-blend-whisky\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m now 4 days behind schedule and feeling the pressure. My goal is to complete on time (i.e. the 24th)\u2026 that&#8217;s 9 drams in 5 days! St. Isidore has a sweet seaside aroma with just a puff of smoke. The salty sea air is sweetened by butterscotch and vanilla while smoky grass moves in the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mark.abear.net\/blog\/2012\/12\/st-isidore\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":161,"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":false,"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":[45,37],"class_list":["post-162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-whiskey","tag-blended","tag-master-of-malt"],"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/mark.abear.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/20121220-224132.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p364aH-2C","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mark.abear.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162","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=162"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/mark.abear.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":371,"href":"https:\/\/mark.abear.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162\/revisions\/371"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mark.abear.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mark.abear.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mark.abear.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mark.abear.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}