{"id":23,"date":"2019-02-08T00:28:00","date_gmt":"2019-02-08T00:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/whiskyskull.spedley.co.uk\/?p=23"},"modified":"2024-02-08T18:05:24","modified_gmt":"2024-02-08T18:05:24","slug":"where-it-all-started-ardbeg-17-years-old","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whiskyskull.spedley.co.uk\/index.php\/2019\/02\/08\/where-it-all-started-ardbeg-17-years-old\/","title":{"rendered":"Where it all started Ardbeg 17 Years Old"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p style=\"font-size:27px\">This is the whisky which really ignited my love of a dram. It wasn&#8217;t my first whisky, but my first high quality whisky.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:27px\">We bought a bottle for my father in laws 70th birthday in 2001. At the age of 39, never had I tasted something so complex, unctuous and deep. It was so good that I treated myself to a bottle for our wedding day in 2003. When my father in law passed I was lucky enough to grab another bottle to share at his wake. This really started the journey and is one of the only bottles I have ever bought multiples of.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:27px\"> V \u2013 Light brass, old gold, honey, thick ring and slow legs \u2013 9 N \u2013 Malted Shreddies, cocoa, choc, runny malt, bbq meat, cream, forest floor\/ damp wood \u2013 14 M \u2013 smooth, mid, light tongue tip prickle \u2013 14 T \u2013 smoke, wood, malt, malted shreddies, oaked chardonnay, white grapes, clotted cream, malt, breaded ham, dark choc, varnish, bees wax, bbq chicory\/ leafy veg, tobacco, seaweed, saline, rocks &#8211;&nbsp;&nbsp;28 F \u2013 salty rocks, peaty mud, dark choc, tobacco, bbq chicory, bees wax, cream, malt, leafy veg, oaked chardonnay, malted shreddies, ham, stewed apples, finally a smoky hint \u2013 long but mellow, like a great wood aged chardonnay (my reference point at the time) \u2013 28 =<strong>&nbsp;93<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the whisky which really ignited my love of a dram. It wasn&#8217;t my first whisky, but my first [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[6,9,7,8,4],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whiskyskull.spedley.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whiskyskull.spedley.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whiskyskull.spedley.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whiskyskull.spedley.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whiskyskull.spedley.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/whiskyskull.spedley.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40,"href":"https:\/\/whiskyskull.spedley.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23\/revisions\/40"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whiskyskull.spedley.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whiskyskull.spedley.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whiskyskull.spedley.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whiskyskull.spedley.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}