{"id":5680,"date":"2011-09-07T22:46:24","date_gmt":"2011-09-07T12:46:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/?p=5680"},"modified":"2011-09-07T22:49:24","modified_gmt":"2011-09-07T12:49:24","slug":"the-macallan-select-oak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/?p=5680","title":{"rendered":"The Macallan Select Oak"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/whiskywednesday.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4911 aligncenter\" title=\"whiskywednesday\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/whiskywednesday.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"75\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/whiskywednesday.jpg 600w, http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/whiskywednesday-300x37.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/macallanselectoak.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-5681\" title=\"macallanselectoak\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/macallanselectoak.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"402\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/macallanselectoak.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/macallanselectoak-223x300.jpg 223w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>DISTILLERY <\/strong>Macallan<\/p>\n<p><strong>TYPE<\/strong> Single Malt<\/p>\n<p><strong>ALCOHOL <\/strong>40%<\/p>\n<p><strong>REGION <\/strong>Highland<\/p>\n<p><strong> COLOR <\/strong>Glorious amber<\/p>\n<p><strong>NOSE <\/strong>Strong scent of butterscotch.<\/p>\n<p><strong> PALATE <\/strong>A pleasingly warm, full bodied flavour evoking toffee, vanilla treacle and spongecake.\u00a0 Takes you away to a happy place filled with memories of summer holidays&#8230;basking in the warmth of the sun.\u00a0 It took a second glass to reach that conclusion however.<\/p>\n<p><strong>FINISH <\/strong>A long and warm finish.\u00a0 Lovely.<\/p>\n<p><strong>SCORE<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">90 out of 100<\/span><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p><strong>NOTES <\/strong>First of all, this bottle of The Macallan Select Oak towers over the other bottles in my collection like a Redwood.\u00a0 This mighty one litre bottle is impractically tall and only <em>*just*<\/em> manages to fit in my deepest cabinet shelf.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s no denying though that this is an absolutely magic dram that served as a wonderful re-introduction to my weekly Whisky write ups.\u00a0 It has a strong, distinct taste that has benefited from generations of careful refinement.\u00a0 It doesn&#8217;t have the bite that other stronger flavoured whiskies can sometimes bring with them.\u00a0 This tastes every bit as luxurious as the label looks with its fanciful gold trimmed text.<\/p>\n<p>I have absolutely no clue how I came to possess this bottle.\u00a0 So if you gave it to me as a gift, I&#8217;m sorry I don&#8217;t recall who you are.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/macallandistillery.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-5682\" title=\"macallandistillery\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/macallandistillery.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"630\" height=\"191\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/macallandistillery.jpg 630w, http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/macallandistillery-300x90.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DISTILLERY Macallan TYPE Single Malt ALCOHOL 40% REGION Highland COLOR Glorious amber NOSE Strong scent of butterscotch. PALATE A pleasingly warm, full bodied flavour evoking toffee, vanilla treacle and spongecake.\u00a0 Takes you away to a happy place filled with memories of summer holidays&#8230;basking in the warmth of the sun.\u00a0 It took a second glass to &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,746],"tags":[1041,1040,359,889],"class_list":["post-5680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-tfw-whisky-companion","tag-the-macallan","tag-the-macallan-select-oak","tag-whisky","tag-whisky-wednesday"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5680"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5680\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5687,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5680\/revisions\/5687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}