{"id":82,"date":"2012-12-10T20:40:48","date_gmt":"2012-12-11T02:40:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mark.abear.net\/blog\/?p=82"},"modified":"2013-02-11T14:14:10","modified_gmt":"2013-02-11T20:14:10","slug":"macleods-8-year-old-islay-ian-macleod","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mark.abear.net\/blog\/2012\/12\/macleods-8-year-old-islay-ian-macleod\/","title":{"rendered":"MacLeods 8 Year Old Islay (Ian MacLeod)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mark.abear.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/20121210-200809.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full \" title=\"MacLeods 8 Year Old Islay (Ian MacLeod)\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/mark.abear.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/20121210-200809.jpg\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Islay Single Malt, 8 Years, 40% ABV, $50<\/p><\/div>\n<p>This my first Islay Scotch and I&#8217;ve really been looking forward to the experience. I&#8217;ll just dive right in.<\/p>\n<p>Salty seawater, orange and lots of smoke. I think I need to give this one some room to breath. Okay, the smoke has settled down some and the orange has become orange peel and shortbread with just a hint of creamy vanilla. I also detect a faint spruce tree. I was expecting a note of iodine based on what I&#8217;ve heard, but this may be coming through as the fir for me. Anyway, its time for a sip. The taste is a lot of peat and oily smoke\u2026 not my favorite. Now, I do get a taste of iodine that persists for quite a while. Also, not my idea of a desired flavor. Other flavors I detect are vanilla and pepper.<\/p>\n<p>Master of Malt <a href=\"http:\/\/www.masterofmalt.com\/whiskies\/macleods-8-year-old-islay-whisky\/?srh=1\">says<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A peaty 8 year old Single Malt from a secret Islay, bottled by Ian Macleod as an introduction into malt whisky.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This my first Islay Scotch and I&#8217;ve really been looking forward to the experience. I&#8217;ll just dive right in. Salty seawater, orange and lots of smoke. I think I need to give this one some room to breath. Okay, the smoke has settled down some and the orange has become orange peel and shortbread with &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mark.abear.net\/blog\/2012\/12\/macleods-8-year-old-islay-ian-macleod\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":81,"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":[56,20,16],"class_list":["post-82","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-whiskey","tag-ian-macleod","tag-islay","tag-single-malt"],"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/mark.abear.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/20121210-200809.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p364aH-1k","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mark.abear.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82","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=82"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/mark.abear.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":383,"href":"https:\/\/mark.abear.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82\/revisions\/383"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mark.abear.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mark.abear.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mark.abear.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mark.abear.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}