{"id":1529,"date":"2025-07-31T16:04:01","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T16:04:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thewhiskyviking.com\/?p=1529"},"modified":"2025-08-01T05:32:33","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T05:32:33","slug":"balblair-1989-bottled-2007-1st-release-43","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thewhiskyviking.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/31\/balblair-1989-bottled-2007-1st-release-43\/","title":{"rendered":"Balblair 1989 (bottled 2007), 1st Release, 43%"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Review #292 (2016)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is the first release and comes from ex-Bourbon casks. What a well-behaved whisky! Some syrupy sugar sweetness mixed with some exotic fruits in <strong>the smell<\/strong>. Sweet banana cake and some pineapple. The oak influence is so elegant! It doesn&#8217;t dominate, it just blends in with the other flavors in a very suiting way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It is a bit rougher in <strong>the taste<\/strong>. In the good way! The wood is getting more prominent and the sugary sweetness is almost gone. Replaced with fruity sweetness, but very subtle. The exotic fruits is almost gone in <strong>the finish<\/strong> and replaced with spices and a hint of lemons, but the wood is still the main factor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Another lovely dram from Balblair. I like their Sherry influenced whiskies a bit more, but if you enjoy a solid Bourbon Barrel influenced whisky, this would be a good choice! The wood and the age really makes a difference! I will give this <strong>87\/100<\/strong> (22\/21\/22\/22).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Review #292 (2016) This is the first release and comes from ex-Bourbon casks. What a well-behaved whisky! Some syrupy sugar sweetness mixed with some exotic fruits in the smell. Sweet banana cake and some pineapple. The oak influence is so elegant! It doesn&#8217;t dominate, it just blends in with the other flavors in a very [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1530,"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-1529","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\/1529","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=1529"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thewhiskyviking.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1529\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1546,"href":"https:\/\/thewhiskyviking.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1529\/revisions\/1546"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewhiskyviking.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewhiskyviking.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewhiskyviking.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewhiskyviking.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}