{"id":446,"date":"2021-12-25T14:58:17","date_gmt":"2021-12-25T14:58:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thewhiskyviking.com\/?p=446"},"modified":"2021-12-25T14:58:17","modified_gmt":"2021-12-25T14:58:17","slug":"hibiki-12-yo-43","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thewhiskyviking.com\/index.php\/2021\/12\/25\/hibiki-12-yo-43\/","title":{"rendered":"Hibiki 12 yo, 43%"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Review #197 (2015)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is expensive, so the expectations are a bit high. Amongst other, it has malt whisky from Yamazaki and Hakushu and grain whisky from Chita. <strong>The smell<\/strong> is fresh, yet full-bodied. Light, but still a bit heavy. Some vanilla and honey, and yet some plums in the background. I like this little play.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There is some different things going on in <strong>the taste<\/strong>, but the first thing I notice is some spices. The dominating flavor is from the sherry wood though. <strong>The finish<\/strong> doesn\u2019t stay too long, but some nutty-woody and orange notes makes an appearance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A bit too pricey for what it is delivering. With a higher ABV it would definitely have been much more interesting. The balance is fine, yet a bit off, but I just find this blend to simple in regards of what I was expecting. Don\u2019t get me wrong, it is a lovely dram! I will give this <strong>85\/100<\/strong> (22\/21\/21\/21).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Review #197 (2015) This is expensive, so the expectations are a bit high. Amongst other, it has malt whisky from Yamazaki and Hakushu and grain whisky from Chita. The smell is fresh, yet full-bodied. Light, but still a bit heavy. Some vanilla and honey, and yet some plums in the background. I like this little [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":447,"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":[40,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-japan","category-japanese-blend"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewhiskyviking.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446","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=446"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thewhiskyviking.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":448,"href":"https:\/\/thewhiskyviking.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446\/revisions\/448"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewhiskyviking.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewhiskyviking.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewhiskyviking.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewhiskyviking.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}