{"id":1701,"date":"2016-08-28T17:00:26","date_gmt":"2016-08-28T22:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mark.abear.net\/blog\/?p=1701"},"modified":"2016-09-28T10:10:09","modified_gmt":"2016-09-28T15:10:09","slug":"ntss-single-malt-scotch-whisky-tasting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mark.abear.net\/blog\/2016\/08\/ntss-single-malt-scotch-whisky-tasting\/","title":{"rendered":"NTSS Single Malt Scotch Whisky Tasting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The North Texas Spirits Society met for a <a href=\"https:\/\/ntss.club\/?p=42\" target=\"_blank\">tasting of Scotch Whisky<\/a> and the lineup was pretty spectacular. \u00a0I can honestly say that there wasn&#8217;t a single poor that I would consider average \u2013 they were all very good. \u00a0The standouts for me were the Glendronach 21 Year Single Cask (see my review <a href=\"http:\/\/mark.abear.net\/blog\/?p=1683\">here<\/a>), Linkwood-Glenlivet 23 Year and Lagavulin 12 Year 2014.<\/p>\n<h4>Whisky List:<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>MacAllan 14 Year 1990 (Provenance, 46%)<\/li>\n<li>Bladnoch 25 Year 1990 (Exclusive Casks, 51.5%)<\/li>\n<li>Coleburn 21 Year 1979 (Rare Malts, 59.4%)<\/li>\n<li>Linkwood-Glinlevet 23 Year (Cadenhead, 55.3%)<\/li>\n<li>Mortlach 21 Year (Cadenhead, 53.5%)<\/li>\n<li>SHamamoto Custom Blend (58.8%)\n<ul>\n<li>2 parts Aberlour A&#8217;bunadh (Batch 45,\u00a059.8%)<\/li>\n<li>1 part Aberlour A&#8217;bunadh (Batch 30, 60.2%)<\/li>\n<li>2 parts Tamdhu Sherried Cask Strength (Batch 1, 58.8%)<\/li>\n<li>2 parts Glendronach Cask Strength (Batch 3, 54.9%)<\/li>\n<li>1 part Macallan Cask Strength (58.6%)<\/li>\n<li>1 part Macallan Cask Strength (59.0%)<\/li>\n<li>3 parts Macallan Cask Strength (60.1%)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Glenfarclas 24 Year 1990 (K&amp;L Wine Merchants, 50%)<\/li>\n<li>Glendronach 21 Year Single Cask Oloroso Sherry Butt 1990 (#2209, Spec\u2019s Exclusive Selection, 53.8%)<\/li>\n<li>Bowmore 25 Year (AD Rattray, 47.9%)<\/li>\n<li>Two Brewers Peated Single Malt (43%)<\/li>\n<li>Laphroaig 10 Cask Strength (L7, 55.7%)<\/li>\n<li>Lagavulin 12 Year 2014 (54.4%)<\/li>\n<li>Ardbeg Supernova 2010<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As is the custom of the group, there are bonus offerings from several members of the society that are revealed after the official lineup is completed. \u00a0I was really impressed with all 3 of the older offerings, particularly the Longmorn 15; however, the Buchanan Deluxe bears mentioning as the best blend I&#8217;ve ever tasted. \u00a0I wish that they still made them like this one! \u00a0I have the 2 Cairdeas offerings, so you should see them reviewed eventually.<\/p>\n<h4>Bonus Pours:<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Springbank 15 Year (bottled pre-2006)<\/li>\n<li>Longmorn 15 (bottled in 1980&#8217;s)<\/li>\n<li>Laphroaig Cairdeas 2015<\/li>\n<li>Laphroaig Cairdeas 2016<\/li>\n<li>Buchanan&#8217;s Deluxe 12 Year (bottled in 1960&#8217;s)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The North Texas Spirits Society met for a tasting of Scotch Whisky and the lineup was pretty spectacular. \u00a0I can honestly say that there wasn&#8217;t a single poor that I would consider average \u2013 they were all very good. \u00a0The standouts for me were the Glendronach 21 Year Single Cask (see my review here), Linkwood-Glenlivet &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mark.abear.net\/blog\/2016\/08\/ntss-single-malt-scotch-whisky-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":true,"_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":[53,30,215,45,67,217,52,216,116,35,20,203,29,152,39,210,16,18,100,195,34,218],"class_list":["post-1701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-whiskey","tag-aberlour","tag-ardbeg","tag-bladnoch","tag-blended","tag-bowmore","tag-buchanan","tag-campbeltown","tag-coleburn","tag-glendronach","tag-glenfarclas","tag-islay","tag-lagavulin","tag-laphroaig","tag-linkwood","tag-longmorn","tag-mortlach","tag-single-malt","tag-speyside","tag-springbank","tag-tamdhu","tag-the-macallan","tag-two-brewers"],"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p364aH-rr","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mark.abear.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1701","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=1701"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mark.abear.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1701\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1732,"href":"https:\/\/mark.abear.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1701\/revisions\/1732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mark.abear.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mark.abear.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mark.abear.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}