{"id":578,"date":"2021-12-30T13:23:53","date_gmt":"2021-12-30T13:23:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thewhiskyviking.com\/?p=578"},"modified":"2021-12-30T13:23:53","modified_gmt":"2021-12-30T13:23:53","slug":"strathisla-11-yo-2006-2017-smws-58-20-58-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thewhiskyviking.com\/index.php\/2021\/12\/30\/strathisla-11-yo-2006-2017-smws-58-20-58-8\/","title":{"rendered":"Strathisla 11 yo (2006\/2017), SMWS 58.20, 58.8%"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Review #603 (2018)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This whisky is named \u201dSeriously Scrumptious\u201d. It states on the bottle it is from a Virgin Oak Hogshead, but on the text on the bottle, it also says ex Bourbon hogshead, so who knows? Maybe a finish in Virgin Oak. 262 bottles were made. Sweet vanilla and over ripe plums in <strong>the smell<\/strong>. Oak and sweet raisins in the background.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Very powerful with oak spices coming through at first in <strong>the taste<\/strong>. Then the oak comes forward with burned caramel. <strong>The finish<\/strong> is sweet, with vanilla mixing in with the caramel, oak and oak spices. Some light fruits lies in the background all the way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It\u2019s a very lovely dram, but I miss a bit of complexity. It is the same things that pops up from start to finish, and the oak is quite dominant. But hey, it\u2019s single cask, cask strength, and as I said, very lovely. I will give this <strong>86\/100<\/strong> (22\/21\/22\/21).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Review #603 (2018) This whisky is named \u201dSeriously Scrumptious\u201d. It states on the bottle it is from a Virgin Oak Hogshead, but on the text on the bottle, it also says ex Bourbon hogshead, so who knows? Maybe a finish in Virgin Oak. 262 bottles were made. Sweet vanilla and over ripe plums in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":579,"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":[3,52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-scotland","category-strathisla"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewhiskyviking.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578","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=578"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thewhiskyviking.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":580,"href":"https:\/\/thewhiskyviking.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578\/revisions\/580"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewhiskyviking.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewhiskyviking.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewhiskyviking.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewhiskyviking.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}