{"id":1499,"date":"2023-12-02T07:59:41","date_gmt":"2023-12-02T07:59:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thewhiskyviking.com\/?p=1499"},"modified":"2023-12-02T07:59:41","modified_gmt":"2023-12-02T07:59:41","slug":"gun-fighter-golden-moon-american-rye-double-cask-port-finish-50","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thewhiskyviking.com\/index.php\/2023\/12\/02\/gun-fighter-golden-moon-american-rye-double-cask-port-finish-50\/","title":{"rendered":"Gun Fighter (Golden Moon), American Rye &#8211; Double Cask Port Finish, 50%"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Review #936 (2023)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is aged for a minimum six months in new American oak casks, and then finished in used French oak casks that previously held California port-style wine. Loads of spices on <strong>the nose<\/strong>, with a hint of chemical notes in the background. Wait\u2026 Do I get dill?? Not a note I\u2019m too familiar with, from Scotch whisky!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Spices and fresh herbs in <strong>the taste<\/strong>. The Port influence is not overly present. Seems like the herbs (dill?!) is winning the fight over the fruity flavours. Spices and oak come forward in <strong>the finish<\/strong>, which stays for quite a while.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is quite interesting, but I find the Bourbon version better. But as the Bourbon version, this also offers something a bit different, compared to \u201cnormal\u201d Rye Whiskies. I will give this <strong>82\/100<\/strong> (20\/20\/21\/21).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Review #936 (2023) This is aged for a minimum six months in new American oak casks, and then finished in used French oak casks that previously held California port-style wine. Loads of spices on the nose, with a hint of chemical notes in the background. Wait\u2026 Do I get dill?? Not a note I\u2019m too [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1500,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[102,54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-golden-moon","category-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewhiskyviking.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1499","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=1499"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thewhiskyviking.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1499\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1501,"href":"https:\/\/thewhiskyviking.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1499\/revisions\/1501"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewhiskyviking.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewhiskyviking.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewhiskyviking.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewhiskyviking.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}