{"id":124,"date":"2012-12-29T22:25:54","date_gmt":"2012-12-30T06:25:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukerymarz.com\/ratingpending\/?p=124"},"modified":"2012-12-29T22:25:54","modified_gmt":"2012-12-30T06:25:54","slug":"whisky-of-the-year-2012-compass-box-great-king-street","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lukerymarz.com\/ratingpending\/2012\/12\/whisky-of-the-year-2012-compass-box-great-king-street.html","title":{"rendered":"Whisky of the Year 2012: Compass Box Great King Street"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00a0I&#8217;ve been tasting whisky for just short of a year now. \u00a0I&#8217;ve just started a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/playlist?list=PLuXTqxFFkNgDMfKmDsnMNdtPaDqTFCQep\">series of whisky tasting videos<\/a> where I compare\u00a0whiskies, and I thought I should commemorate my first year of whisky enjoyment with a whisky of the year video. \u00a0 So here it is:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6B8iG4pFtyQ\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Why did I choose Compass Box Great King Street? \u00a0Lots of factors:<!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Price &#8211; Cheaper than most single malts.<\/li>\n<li>Availability &#8211; King Street whisky is readily available, but is <strong>also<\/strong> available in a 200ml bottling for folks like me who want a taste for less than the price of a whole bottle. \u00a0Awesome! \u00a0And much appreciated!<\/li>\n<li>Taste &#8211; naturally it&#8217;s interesting to nose and taste.<\/li>\n<li>Company Transparency &#8211; this is overlooked often. \u00a0Compass box publishes their whisky ratios (although without specific distillery names) and cask usage ratios on the King Street website:\u00a0<a title=\"greatkingstreet.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.greatkingstreet.com\">greatkingstreet.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li>The little things &#8211; King Street is the only bottle of whisky I&#8217;ve seen that specifically says &#8220;Non-chill Filtered&#8221;\u00a0<strong>as well as\u00a0<\/strong>&#8220;Natural Colour&#8221; right there on the bottle (I haven&#8217;t seen even Ardbeg do that yet). \u00a0Again, much appreciated!<\/li>\n<li>Presentation &#8211; not terribly important, but it&#8217;s definitely worth putting\u00a0<em>some<\/em> time into packaging and presenation, and King Street passes well past the bar here<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-127 aligncenter\" title=\"Compass Box Great King Street\" src=\"http:\/\/lukerymarz.com\/ratingpending\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/DSC_8271-199x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/lukerymarz.com\/ratingpending\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/DSC_8271-199x300.jpg 199w, http:\/\/lukerymarz.com\/ratingpending\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/DSC_8271-680x1024.jpg 680w, http:\/\/lukerymarz.com\/ratingpending\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/DSC_8271.jpg 797w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 199px) 100vw, 199px\" \/> King Street has all of these, and it&#8217;s got a great balance of depth and\u00a0approachability\u00a0(it&#8217;s great as a first-timer whisky as well as experienced folks). \u00a0I highly recommend giving it a try, regardless of your experience with whisky.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0I&#8217;ve been tasting whisky for just short of a year now. \u00a0I&#8217;ve just started a series of whisky tasting videos where I compare\u00a0whiskies, and I thought I should commemorate my first year of whisky enjoyment with a whisky of the year video. \u00a0 So here it is: Why did I choose Compass Box Great King [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-whisky"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lukerymarz.com\/ratingpending\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lukerymarz.com\/ratingpending\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lukerymarz.com\/ratingpending\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lukerymarz.com\/ratingpending\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lukerymarz.com\/ratingpending\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"http:\/\/lukerymarz.com\/ratingpending\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":150,"href":"http:\/\/lukerymarz.com\/ratingpending\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124\/revisions\/150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lukerymarz.com\/ratingpending\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lukerymarz.com\/ratingpending\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lukerymarz.com\/ratingpending\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}