{"id":261,"date":"2013-01-16T16:29:34","date_gmt":"2013-01-16T22:29:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mark.abear.net\/blog\/?p=261"},"modified":"2013-02-11T14:11:25","modified_gmt":"2013-02-11T20:11:25","slug":"four-roses-single-barrel-bourbon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mark.abear.net\/blog\/2013\/01\/four-roses-single-barrel-bourbon\/","title":{"rendered":"Four Roses Single Barrel Bourbon"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 185px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mark.abear.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/20130128-235344.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full   \" title=\"Four Roses Single Barrel Bourbon\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/mark.abear.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/20130128-235344.jpg\" width=\"175\" height=\"287\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Single Barrel Bourbon,<br \/>No Age Specified, 50% ABV, $40<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Notes of toffee, cherry, shortbread and ginger on the nose with a hint of cigar box. There&#8217;s also a sweetness that nicely offsets the alcohol burn. The taste is full of ginger and pepper that bursts, then subsides to a gentle fade. The burst of flavor is also filled with bitter orange, apple, vanilla, cinnamon and plum jelly. A bit of clove and white pepper are left on the palate as the burn subsides. I would characterize this as a very bright and spicy whiskey. Smooth would not be an appropriate label here and I mean this in a positive sense. I may have to spring for a limited edition offering based on this experience. This is a unique bourbon and I&#8217;m looking forward to more like it.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the description from <a href=\"http:\/\/fourrosesbourbon.com\/single-barrel\/\">Four Roses<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A premium Single Barrel Bourbon with a taste you\u2019ll want to savor again and again. Complex, full bodied and surprisingly smooth with a delicate long finish that\u2019s unbelievably mellow. Contains hints of ripe plum and cherry tastes with fruity, spicy aromas including maple syrup and cocoa.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Notes of toffee, cherry, shortbread and ginger on the nose with a hint of cigar box. There&#8217;s also a sweetness that nicely offsets the alcohol burn. The taste is full of ginger and pepper that bursts, then subsides to a gentle fade. The burst of flavor is also filled with bitter orange, apple, vanilla, cinnamon &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mark.abear.net\/blog\/2013\/01\/four-roses-single-barrel-bourbon\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":318,"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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[24,32,48],"class_list":["post-261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-whiskey","tag-bourbon","tag-four-roses","tag-single-barrel"],"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/mark.abear.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Four-Roses-Single-Barrel-Label.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p364aH-4d","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mark.abear.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261","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=261"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/mark.abear.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":380,"href":"https:\/\/mark.abear.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261\/revisions\/380"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mark.abear.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mark.abear.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mark.abear.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mark.abear.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}