{"id":193,"date":"2012-12-21T23:03:28","date_gmt":"2012-12-22T05:03:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mark.abear.net\/blog\/?p=193"},"modified":"2013-02-11T13:45:55","modified_gmt":"2013-02-11T19:45:55","slug":"benriach-16-year-old","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mark.abear.net\/blog\/2012\/12\/benriach-16-year-old\/","title":{"rendered":"BenRiach 16 Year Old"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mark.abear.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/20121221-223818.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full \" title=\"BenRiach 16 Year Old\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/mark.abear.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/20121221-223818.jpg\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Speyside Single Malt, 16 Years, 40%, $59<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Speyside Single Malt, 16 Years, 40% ABV, $60[\/caption]<\/p>\n<p>Grass, mild peat and toffee greet the nose along with just a whiff of smoke. The smell has a chewy sweetness to it that is quite nice. As it breathes, the aroma opens up with corn syrup, grapefruit and a touch of brine. The taste is initially salty and sweet with notes of grapefruit, vanilla and white pepper. The salt and pepper linger and give way to a woody aftertaste. The white pepper is the strongest flavor often the sweetness subsides and, unfortunately I&#8217;m not a big fan of this flavor. The salty heat is welcome, although a bit overdone without any other interesting spices. The initial flavor is quite good, but it degrades quickly from there to a grassy bitterness. The pepper doesn&#8217;t go away for minutes and I&#8217;m hesitant to dilute it with such muted flavors. Amazingly, a bit of water helps out greatly. The tangy vanilla up front improves and the pepper is quickly brought under control. Now it&#8217;s quite nice! I&#8217;m beginning to take a great interest in Speyside whisky.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.masterofmalt.com\/whiskies\/benriach-16-year-old-whisky\/?srh=1\">Master of Malt<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A Gold Medal winner at the 2006 International Wine and Spirits Competition, this 16 year old BenRiach was also a 2006 Silver Medal winner at the International Spirits Challenge.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speyside Single Malt, 16 Years, 40% ABV, $60[\/caption] Grass, mild peat and toffee greet the nose along with just a whiff of smoke. The smell has a chewy sweetness to it that is quite nice. As it breathes, the aroma opens up with corn syrup, grapefruit and a touch of brine. The taste is initially &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mark.abear.net\/blog\/2012\/12\/benriach-16-year-old\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":192,"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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[43,16,18],"class_list":["post-193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-whiskey","tag-benriach","tag-single-malt","tag-speyside"],"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/mark.abear.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/20121221-223818.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p364aH-37","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mark.abear.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193","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=193"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/mark.abear.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":213,"href":"https:\/\/mark.abear.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193\/revisions\/213"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mark.abear.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mark.abear.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mark.abear.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mark.abear.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}