{"id":243,"date":"2012-12-26T20:20:33","date_gmt":"2012-12-27T02:20:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mark.abear.net\/blog\/?p=243"},"modified":"2013-02-11T14:34:45","modified_gmt":"2013-02-11T20:34:45","slug":"the-macallan-10-year-old-fine-oak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mark.abear.net\/blog\/2012\/12\/the-macallan-10-year-old-fine-oak\/","title":{"rendered":"The MacAllan 10 Year Old Fine Oak"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mark.abear.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/20121226-200112.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full \" title=\"The MacAllan 10 Year Old Fine Oak\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/mark.abear.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/20121226-200112.jpg\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Speyside Single Malt, 10 Years, 40% ABV, $34<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The nose is lightly peated toffee, grass, orange and ginger. The grass is feint and the ginger arrives last. After being allowed to breath, a mild smoke aroma appears. This is one of the easiest to pick out distinct aromas so far\u2026 very nice. The taste is immediately and consistently a balance of sweetness, bitterness and spice. Orange and ginger with apple and vanilla with mild oak and just a bit of peat. There&#8217;s also bitter honey and white pepper. The aftertaste is long wit the spicy pepper lingering long after the sweetness dissipates. In the end, there is only a mild oak, but without the leathery feel. Anyone looking for a heavy wood influence will be left unsatisfied. For me, this is a nice young Scotch whisky and only the second MacAllan I&#8217;ve had\u2026 both 10 year old and this is the better of the two.<\/p>\n<p>According to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.masterofmalt.com\/whiskies\/the-macallan-fine-oak-10-year-old-whisky\/?srh=1\">bottling notes<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This 10 year old from Macallan was matured in a mix of bourbon and sherry casks.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The nose is lightly peated toffee, grass, orange and ginger. The grass is feint and the ginger arrives last. After being allowed to breath, a mild smoke aroma appears. This is one of the easiest to pick out distinct aromas so far\u2026 very nice. The taste is immediately and consistently a balance of sweetness, bitterness &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mark.abear.net\/blog\/2012\/12\/the-macallan-10-year-old-fine-oak\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":242,"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":[16,18,34],"class_list":["post-243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-whiskey","tag-single-malt","tag-speyside","tag-the-macallan"],"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/mark.abear.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/20121226-200112.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p364aH-3V","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mark.abear.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243","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=243"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/mark.abear.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":394,"href":"https:\/\/mark.abear.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243\/revisions\/394"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mark.abear.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mark.abear.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mark.abear.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mark.abear.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}