{"id":3275,"date":"2016-07-19T05:39:58","date_gmt":"2016-07-19T05:39:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/allthingsnice.in\/blog\/?p=3275"},"modified":"2016-07-19T05:39:58","modified_gmt":"2016-07-19T05:39:58","slug":"monkey-shoulder-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/allthingsnice.in\/blog\/?p=3275","title":{"rendered":"Monkey Shoulder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/allthingsnice.in\/blog\/?attachment_id=3276\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3276\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3276 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/allthingsnice.in\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/ms.jpg\" alt=\"ms\" width=\"225\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allthingsnice.in\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/ms.jpg 225w, https:\/\/allthingsnice.in\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/ms-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Monkey Shoulder: The term &#8220;Monkey Shoulder&#8221; harks back to our whisky making heritage. It&#8217;s a reference to a condition that malt-men sometimes picked up while working long shifts, turning the barley by hand. It had a tendency to cause their arm to hang a down a bit like a monkey hence the name.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Whiskey is created by combining single malts from three of Speyside&#8217;s finest distilleries. The result is a smooth, creamy, supple and very malty Scotch which works superbly well neat, over ice, or in whisky cocktails (where it really excels).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Region: Speyside, Scotland<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Barrel: Ex &#8211; Bourbon cask<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Nose: This Whisky is elegant and stylish with nose of marmalade, cocoa, spice and anniseed<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Palate: Very malty, creamy delivery with a suggestion of berry fruit. Cloves and butterscotch, hot-buttered-toast and dried apricot.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Finish: Medium length, spicy oak and a hint of peppermint on the tail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monkey Shoulder: The term &#8220;Monkey Shoulder&#8221; harks back to our whisky making heritage. It&#8217;s a reference to a condition that malt-men sometimes picked up while working long shifts, turning the barley by hand. It had a tendency to cause their arm to hang a down a bit like a monkey hence the name. The Whiskey &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/allthingsnice.in\/blog\/?p=3275\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Monkey Shoulder<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[992],"tags":[1466,741,987,1475,1114,933,934,1394,122],"class_list":["post-3275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tasting-notes","tag-aromas","tag-barrel","tag-monkey-shoulder","tag-nosr","tag-palate","tag-scotch","tag-speyside","tag-taste","tag-tasting-notes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/allthingsnice.in\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/allthingsnice.in\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/allthingsnice.in\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allthingsnice.in\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allthingsnice.in\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3275"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/allthingsnice.in\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3277,"href":"https:\/\/allthingsnice.in\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3275\/revisions\/3277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/allthingsnice.in\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allthingsnice.in\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allthingsnice.in\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}