{"id":1518,"date":"2025-07-31T15:45:58","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T15:45:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thewhiskyviking.com\/?p=1518"},"modified":"2025-08-01T05:32:49","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T05:32:49","slug":"balblair-9-yo-2005-2015-smws-70-10-58-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thewhiskyviking.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/31\/balblair-9-yo-2005-2015-smws-70-10-58-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Balblair 9 yo (2005\/2015), SMWS 70.10, 58.5 %"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Review #143 (2015)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This whisky is called \u201cTeenage Shenanigans\u201d and comes from a refill barrel. Only 242 bottles were made. Tropical fruits mixed with barley on <strong>the nose<\/strong>. Feels Young and fresh so don&#8217;t get to close. If you get your nose a bit away from the glass you really get the sweetness.<br><br>In <strong>the taste<\/strong> you get a lot of alcohol and fresh fruits like apples, but also some sweetness from fruits, like pineapple and apricots. <strong>The finish<\/strong> gives you some oak, sugar, vanilla and nuts.<br><br>Regarding the age and price, I think this is a really good whisky. And don&#8217;t be afraid of some water. It really helps. I will give this <strong>88\/100<\/strong> (21\/22\/23\/22).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Review #143 (2015) This whisky is called \u201cTeenage Shenanigans\u201d and comes from a refill barrel. Only 242 bottles were made. Tropical fruits mixed with barley on the nose. Feels Young and fresh so don&#8217;t get to close. If you get your nose a bit away from the glass you really get the sweetness. In the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1519,"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":[16,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-balblair","category-scotland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewhiskyviking.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1518","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=1518"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thewhiskyviking.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1518\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1548,"href":"https:\/\/thewhiskyviking.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1518\/revisions\/1548"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewhiskyviking.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewhiskyviking.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewhiskyviking.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewhiskyviking.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}