{"id":7681,"date":"2017-05-01T10:26:43","date_gmt":"2017-05-01T09:26:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thewhiskylady.net\/?p=7681"},"modified":"2017-05-01T10:26:43","modified_gmt":"2017-05-01T09:26:43","slug":"may-whisky-wishlist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thewhiskylady.net\/may-whisky-wishlist\/","title":{"rendered":"My May Whisky Wishlist"},"content":{"rendered":"

It may be a bank holiday for some of us, I couldn’t leave you without my monthly whisky wishlist on this 1st of May! Good news:<\/em> I’m also currently working on a proper & permanent “wishlist” page on this blog so that you can always easily find my “go-to” drams of the moment and other must-have gems without having to scroll 1654988 articles or spend hours searching the blog archives. It may take a few weeks to have it up and running but keep your eyes peeled my little drammers \ud83d\ude00 <\/strong><\/p>\n

And without further ado, let’s have a look at this month’ malted selection!<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Laphroaig Four Oak<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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First released for the Travel Retail market, Laphroaig Four Oak<\/a> features a marriage of whisky matured in a quartet of casks, namely ex-bourbon barrels, quarter casks, virgin American oak barrels and European oak hogsheads. Somewhat following on the theme from their popular Triple Wood<\/a> expression…<\/p>\n

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Benromach Sassicaia Wood Finish<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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It’s the 2009 vintage Sassicaia-wood-finished single malt from the Benromach distillery<\/a>! This spends the first portion of its maturation in first-fill bourbon barrels, and is then allowed to finish for 28 months casks which previously held Sassicaia wine from Tuscany.<\/p>\n

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Highland Park Valkyrie<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Valkyrie is the first in Highland Park’s Viking Legend series and the bottle has been created by Danish designer Jim Lyngvild. It’s a peatier expression, and whilst with Highland Park<\/a> this means Ocadian peat and classic heather smoke notes, it’s said that Valkyrie<\/a> offers a more phenolic (although still balanced) experience…<\/p>\n

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Tamdhu 50 years old<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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50 year old single malt<\/a> from the Tamdhu distillery in Speyside. Drawn from a single first-fill European oak Sherry butt which was filled in November 1963, this whisky waited patiently for half a century before being bottled at 55.6% ABV (an impressive strength for such an old whisky). Just 100 bottles were produced.<\/p>\n

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GlenWyvis Highland Inspiration<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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A limited edition release from the upcoming GlenWyvis<\/a> distillery in Dingwall, celebrating the laying of their historic foundation stone. The whisky itself is a single malt Scotch from an undisclosed Highland distillery, with only 1,600 bottles released.<\/p>\n

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Aureum 1865\u00a0– Grave Digger Edition<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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A special edition 6 year old German single malt whisky from the Ziegler distillery<\/a>‘s Aureum 1865 range, released in partnership with long-running German heavy metal band, Grave Digger! The label features a Grim Reaper on it, and the presentation box is shaped like a coffin. How cool is that…<\/em><\/p>\n

Portions of the whisky were aged in Allier oak and chestnut casks for a year, before being aged for the rest of their maturation in bourbon casks. There’s also a portion of Sherry-cask finished single malt and peated single malt in there too.<\/p>\n

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It may be a bank holiday for some of us, I couldn’t leave you without my monthly whisky wishlist on this 1st of May! Good news: I’m also currently working on a proper & permanent “wishlist” page on this blog so that you can always easily find my “go-to” drams of the moment and other must-have gems without having to scroll 1654988 articles or spend …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7254,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[273],"tags":[1327,27,1329,1330,1322,1326,1328,71],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewhiskylady.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7681"}],"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=7681"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thewhiskylady.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7681\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7683,"href":"https:\/\/thewhiskylady.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7681\/revisions\/7683"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewhiskylady.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewhiskylady.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewhiskylady.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewhiskylady.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}