{"id":826,"date":"2013-04-01T23:03:49","date_gmt":"2013-04-02T04:03:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mark.abear.net\/blog\/?p=826"},"modified":"2015-09-30T10:47:42","modified_gmt":"2015-09-30T15:47:42","slug":"willet-family-estate-bottled-single-barrel-bourbon-6-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mark.abear.net\/blog\/2013\/04\/willet-family-estate-bottled-single-barrel-bourbon-6-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Willett Family Estate Single Barrel Bourbon (6 Year)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_923\" style=\"width: 230px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mark.abear.net\/blog\/?attachment_id=923#main\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-923\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-923\" class=\"size-full wp-image-923\" title=\"Willet 6 Bourbon\" src=\"http:\/\/mark.abear.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Willet-6-Bourbon.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"220\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mark.abear.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Willet-6-Bourbon.jpg 220w, https:\/\/mark.abear.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Willet-6-Bourbon-61x100.jpg 61w, https:\/\/mark.abear.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Willet-6-Bourbon-183x300.jpg 183w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 220px) 100vw, 220px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-923\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Single Barrel Bourbon<br \/>(Barrel 1307, Bottle 140\/192),<br \/>6 Years, 61.3% ABV, $40<\/p><\/div>\n<p>This bottle was from a barrel selected by Spec&#8217;s Wine &amp; Spirits, Houston, TX.<\/p>\n<p>Nosing reveals straw, caramel, honey, vanilla, maple syrup, lemon drops and charred wood. With a good amount of water, the smell of grass becomes more prominent along with notes of candied cherries, overripe banana and tobacco.<\/p>\n<p>Flavors of lemon, green apple, ginger, honey, cherries, caramel and grass arrive early. The finish is tart and slightly leathery with a good amount of burn. Adding water reveals a bit of cardboard, graham cracker and light tobacco and transforms the finish into a long, spicy experience with plenty of burn and a remaining leathery tart mixture.<\/p>\n<p>This is a decent whiskey, but not great\u2026 especially for the price. \u00a0The flavor is reminiscent of Eagle Rare 10 with more fruit and spice, but not as well executed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This bottle was from a barrel selected by Spec&#8217;s Wine &amp; Spirits, Houston, TX. Nosing reveals straw, caramel, honey, vanilla, maple syrup, lemon drops and charred wood. With a good amount of water, the smell of grass becomes more prominent along with notes of candied cherries, overripe banana and tobacco. Flavors of lemon, green apple, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mark.abear.net\/blog\/2013\/04\/willet-family-estate-bottled-single-barrel-bourbon-6-year\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":924,"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":[24,77,48],"class_list":["post-826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-whiskey","tag-bourbon","tag-kentucky-bourbon","tag-single-barrel"],"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/mark.abear.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Willett_Bourbon_Label.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p364aH-dk","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mark.abear.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/826","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=826"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/mark.abear.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/826\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1642,"href":"https:\/\/mark.abear.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/826\/revisions\/1642"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mark.abear.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mark.abear.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mark.abear.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mark.abear.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}