{"id":7477,"date":"2017-03-30T12:01:31","date_gmt":"2017-03-30T11:01:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thewhiskylady.net\/?p=7477"},"modified":"2017-03-30T12:07:33","modified_gmt":"2017-03-30T11:07:33","slug":"10-world-whisky-fun-facts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thewhiskylady.net\/10-world-whisky-fun-facts\/","title":{"rendered":"10 World Whisky Fun Facts"},"content":{"rendered":"

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the Italian Puni<\/a> distillery matures part of its stock in a derelict\u00a0bunker <\/strong><\/em>dating back to WWII.<\/p>\n

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Mackmyra<\/a> is also matured underground, in a former mine called the\u00a0Bod\u00e5s Mine, where the temperature remains around 7\u00b0C all year round (amongst other uncommon maturation spots: Chugoku Jozo<\/a> in Japan have been putting\u00a0its cask for aging in a 100-meter long ancient railway tunnel!).\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

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Box has bottled a limited edition whisky<\/a> selected by metal band In Flames.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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France has more<\/strong> whisky distilleries than Ireland <\/strong>#NotBraggingButStill<\/p>\n

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Kavalan<\/a> is NOT the only<\/strong> distillery in Taiwan: the Nantou Distillery<\/a> has recently released a single malt called Omar<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Brenne<\/a> is a French single malt made in the Cognac region… By a New-Yorker. <\/strong>There’s\u00a0more? Founder Allison Patel is also a former ballerina.<\/p>\n

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Aurora Spirit<\/a> in Norway is the northernmost distillery<\/strong> in the WORLD while the Cardrona Distillery in New Zealand is the southernmost whisky distillery<\/strong> in the world!<\/p>\n

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India is the largest whisky market<\/strong> in the world.<\/p>\n

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Residents of Singapore drink about 13 bottles<\/em><\/strong> of Scotch per year – making them the largest Scotch whisky consuming market per capita in the world.<\/p>\n

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South-African James Segdwick Distillery<\/a>‘s master distiller is a former professional Cricket player.<\/p>\n

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Cover Pic: Brenne by Cocktail Enthusiast<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  the Italian Puni distillery matures part of its stock in a derelict\u00a0bunker dating back to WWII. Mackmyra is also matured underground, in a former mine called the\u00a0Bod\u00e5s Mine, where the temperature remains around 7\u00b0C all year round (amongst other uncommon maturation spots: Chugoku Jozo in Japan have been putting\u00a0its cask for aging in a 100-meter long ancient railway tunnel!).\u00a0 Box has bottled a limited …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7485,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[362],"tags":[1246,602,297,1247,1249,24,1244,973,1251,574,244,1252,96,746,1250,1253,1245,1248,1243,59],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewhiskylady.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7477"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewhiskylady.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewhiskylady.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewhiskylady.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewhiskylady.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7477"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/thewhiskylady.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7477\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7491,"href":"https:\/\/thewhiskylady.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7477\/revisions\/7491"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewhiskylady.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewhiskylady.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewhiskylady.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewhiskylady.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}