{"id":1551,"date":"2025-08-01T05:46:38","date_gmt":"2025-08-01T05:46:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thewhiskyviking.com\/?p=1551"},"modified":"2025-08-01T05:46:38","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T05:46:38","slug":"aberfeldy-12-yo-1999-2011-aberdeen-distillers-46","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thewhiskyviking.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/01\/aberfeldy-12-yo-1999-2011-aberdeen-distillers-46\/","title":{"rendered":"Aberfeldy 12 yo (1999\/2011), Aberdeen Distillers, 46%"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Review #??? (2015)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Aberdeen Distillers is a range from Blackadder. All without chill filtration and caramel colouring and bottled at 46% (the first series was bottled at 43% though). This is one out of 180 bottles and <strong>the smell<\/strong> is full of citrus and with hints of vanilla.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>The taste<\/strong> is smooth and powerful. For a 12 year old a think that the woods influence is great. At the end you get some more citrus and honey. Nice chewy <strong>finish<\/strong>. I could have wished that it lasted a little longer, but on the other hand I am just glad that they didn\u2019t watered it down to 43% like the first series (or even all the way down to 40%).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Both the balance and the complexity is classic for what you get from a whisky matured in bourbon barrels. Try it with some water. I don\u2019t think that it makes it better, but a bit different. I give this <strong>84\/100<\/strong> (21\/22\/21\/20).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Review #??? (2015) Aberdeen Distillers is a range from Blackadder. All without chill filtration and caramel colouring and bottled at 46% (the first series was bottled at 43% though). This is one out of 180 bottles and the smell is full of citrus and with hints of vanilla. The taste is smooth and powerful. For [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1552,"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":[11,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aberfeldy","category-scotland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewhiskyviking.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1551","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=1551"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thewhiskyviking.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1551\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1553,"href":"https:\/\/thewhiskyviking.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1551\/revisions\/1553"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewhiskyviking.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewhiskyviking.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewhiskyviking.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewhiskyviking.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}