{"id":6182,"date":"2011-11-23T23:07:15","date_gmt":"2011-11-23T13:07:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/?p=6182"},"modified":"2014-04-26T16:38:39","modified_gmt":"2014-04-26T06:38:39","slug":"oban-14-year-old","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/?p=6182","title":{"rendered":"Oban 14 Year Old"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/whiskywednesday.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4911\" 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 style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/oban.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6183 alignleft\" title=\"oban\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/oban.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"402\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/oban.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/oban-223x300.jpg 223w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><strong>DISTILLERY <\/strong>Oban<\/p>\n<p><strong>TYPE<\/strong>\u00a0Single Malt<\/p>\n<p><strong>ALCOHOL\u00a0<\/strong>43%<\/p>\n<p><strong>REGION <\/strong>West Highland<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>COLOR <\/strong>Gold<\/p>\n<p><strong>NOSE <\/strong>Bananas!\u00a0 There&#8217;s some other stuff going on there too.\u00a0 There&#8217;s a slight smokey whiff about it.\u00a0 But mostly bananas and that&#8217;s just awesome.<\/p>\n<p><strong>PALATE <\/strong>Initially &#8211; a strong bitter, salty seaside bite.\u00a0 Once that passes, a linger note of caramel and citrus.\u00a0 Sadly, no bananas.<\/p>\n<p><strong>FINISH <\/strong>The acidity sits on your tongue afterwards.\u00a0 No hint of peatiness.<\/p>\n<p><strong>SCORE<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>82 out of 100<\/strong><\/span><\/h1>\n<p><strong>NOTES\u00a0<\/strong>I actually had the pleasure of visiting the seaside town of Oban and it&#8217;s whisky distillery last year which is where I got this bottle and accompanying whisky tumbler.\u00a0 The area itself is wonderful.\u00a0 It&#8217;s idyllic, picture-esque and charming.\u00a0 I have fond memories of a particularly excellent fish and chip shop there.\u00a0 Anyway, enough about my holidays.<\/p>\n<p>The Oban whisky is a rather unusual one in the sense that the scent seems completely disconnected from the actual taste.\u00a0 It&#8217;s probably not going to be anyone&#8217;s favourite whisky but its got plenty of character to it.\u00a0 I can highly recommend the tour at the distillery itself.\u00a0 I remember the tour guide being a knowledgable and articulate fellow and he was also particularly generous with the post-tour drinks.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/obandistillery1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6184\" title=\"obandistillery\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/obandistillery1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"630\" height=\"191\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/obandistillery1.jpg 630w, http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/obandistillery1-300x90.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DISTILLERY Oban TYPE\u00a0Single Malt ALCOHOL\u00a043% REGION West Highland COLOR Gold NOSE Bananas!\u00a0 There&#8217;s some other stuff going on there too.\u00a0 There&#8217;s a slight smokey whiff about it.\u00a0 But mostly bananas and that&#8217;s just awesome. PALATE Initially &#8211; a strong bitter, salty seaside bite.\u00a0 Once that passes, a linger note of caramel and citrus.\u00a0 Sadly, no &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":6183,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,746],"tags":[359,889],"class_list":["post-6182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","category-tfw-whisky-companion","tag-whisky","tag-whisky-wednesday"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6182","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=6182"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13934,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6182\/revisions\/13934"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}