{"id":437,"date":"2021-12-24T09:09:11","date_gmt":"2021-12-24T09:09:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thewhiskyviking.com\/?p=437"},"modified":"2021-12-24T09:09:11","modified_gmt":"2021-12-24T09:09:11","slug":"hakushu-12-yo-43","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thewhiskyviking.com\/index.php\/2021\/12\/24\/hakushu-12-yo-43\/","title":{"rendered":"Hakushu 12 yo, 43%"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Review #29 (2014)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Let\u2019s take a trip to the forests of Japan, where this distillery is situated. This is a Japanese single malt delight. A powerful but delicate delight. <strong>The smell<\/strong> is easy with hints of orange, spice and barley.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>The taste<\/strong> took me by surprise! I was expecting a light classic Japanese style, but it has a lot of power, and it is amazing how much that a couple of extra percentages can do. Notes of hay, barley, grass and some floral impressions are present. <strong>The finish<\/strong> is sadly enough over quite fast. Some sweet barley is left in the mouth. Not much else\u2026 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It isn\u2019t bad, but could be better. The taste is absolute the high scorer. It has much more taste and power than a normal 12 year old Japanese whisky. I will rate this <strong>84\/100<\/strong> (20\/22\/21\/21).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Review #29 (2014) Let\u2019s take a trip to the forests of Japan, where this distillery is situated. This is a Japanese single malt delight. A powerful but delicate delight. The smell is easy with hints of orange, spice and barley. The taste took me by surprise! I was expecting a light classic Japanese style, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":438,"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":[41,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hakushu","category-japan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewhiskyviking.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437","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=437"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thewhiskyviking.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":439,"href":"https:\/\/thewhiskyviking.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437\/revisions\/439"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewhiskyviking.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewhiskyviking.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewhiskyviking.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewhiskyviking.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}