{"id":1378,"date":"2023-07-05T14:59:03","date_gmt":"2023-07-05T14:59:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thewhiskyviking.com\/?p=1378"},"modified":"2023-07-05T14:59:03","modified_gmt":"2023-07-05T14:59:03","slug":"benromach-5-yo-bottled-2014-40","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thewhiskyviking.com\/index.php\/2023\/07\/05\/benromach-5-yo-bottled-2014-40\/","title":{"rendered":"Benromach 5 yo (bottled 2014), 40%"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Review #275 (2016)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">All the other distilleries are making NAS whiskies, but Benromach don\u2019t care and just slaps a young age statement on this bottle. 5 years old (or young)! Thumbs up for that! <strong>The smell<\/strong> is fresh, light citrusy with hints of marzipan, grass and peat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lots of alcohol at first in <strong>the taste<\/strong>. It seems very young. Grass, apples and some vanilla. <strong>The finish<\/strong> is a lot better! The alcohol calms down and the light white fruity flavors come forward, plus some nutty notes with marzipan sweetness, and stays for quite a while.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With a bit of water in the garden on a hot summer day, this would probably do the trick. There are just many whiskies out there that would do the trick a lot better\u2026 This would probably be great in drinks and cocktails though. Still I will give this <strong>79\/100<\/strong> (20\/19\/21\/19).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Review #275 (2016) All the other distilleries are making NAS whiskies, but Benromach don\u2019t care and just slaps a young age statement on this bottle. 5 years old (or young)! Thumbs up for that! The smell is fresh, light citrusy with hints of marzipan, grass and peat. Lots of alcohol at first in the taste. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1379,"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":[92,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-benromach","category-scotland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewhiskyviking.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1378","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=1378"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thewhiskyviking.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1378\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1380,"href":"https:\/\/thewhiskyviking.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1378\/revisions\/1380"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewhiskyviking.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewhiskyviking.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewhiskyviking.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewhiskyviking.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}