{"id":1176,"date":"2022-09-01T14:13:11","date_gmt":"2022-09-01T14:13:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thewhiskyviking.com\/?p=1176"},"modified":"2022-09-01T14:18:48","modified_gmt":"2022-09-01T14:18:48","slug":"arran-the-devils-punch-bowl-chapter-i-523","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thewhiskyviking.com\/index.php\/2022\/09\/01\/arran-the-devils-punch-bowl-chapter-i-523\/","title":{"rendered":"Arran, The Devil\u00b4s Punch Bowl \u2013 Chapter I, 52.3%"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Review #688 (2018)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is Chapter I in the series and it consists of 24 casks of whisky distilled between 1996 and 2006. 3 Sherry butts from, 6 Bourbon barrels from 1996, 2 Sherry butts 1997, 8 Sherry hogsheads from 1998 and 5 peated Bourbon barrels from 2006. 6660 bottles were made. Light Sherry influence and crisp green apples in <strong>the smell<\/strong>. A little vanilla, honey and oak as well. A little grass or hay notes in the end.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The dried fruits gets more dominant in <strong>the taste<\/strong>. Some oak, caramel and just a bit of floral notes. Wow \u2013 a little peat builds up and comes forward in <strong>the finish<\/strong>. The white fruits comes a little more forward as well and mixes with the dates and sweet raisins.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is constructed very well! A little bit of everything, and the flavours just compliments each other! Give this time \u2013 it changes so much over time, which just adds to the complexity! The only \u2018bad\u2019 thing I can say about this, is that the floral notes comes a little much too forward (for my taste) over time or with water! I will give this <strong>86\/100<\/strong> (21\/21\/22\/22).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Review #688 (2018) This is Chapter I in the series and it consists of 24 casks of whisky distilled between 1996 and 2006. 3 Sherry butts from, 6 Bourbon barrels from 1996, 2 Sherry butts 1997, 8 Sherry hogsheads from 1998 and 5 peated Bourbon barrels from 2006. 6660 bottles were made. Light Sherry influence [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1177,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[83,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arran","category-scotland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewhiskyviking.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewhiskyviking.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewhiskyviking.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewhiskyviking.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewhiskyviking.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1176"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thewhiskyviking.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1183,"href":"https:\/\/thewhiskyviking.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1176\/revisions\/1183"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewhiskyviking.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewhiskyviking.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewhiskyviking.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewhiskyviking.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}