{"id":662,"date":"2010-07-26T06:56:27","date_gmt":"2010-07-26T06:56:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/2010\/07\/26\/report-from-2nd-annual-pine-island-scotch-on-the-rock-tasting-july-25-2010\/"},"modified":"2010-07-26T06:56:27","modified_gmt":"2010-07-26T06:56:27","slug":"report-from-2nd-annual-pine-island-scotch-on-the-rock-tasting-july-25-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/2010\/07\/26\/report-from-2nd-annual-pine-island-scotch-on-the-rock-tasting-july-25-2010\/","title":{"rendered":"Report from &#8211; 2nd Annual Pine Island \u0091Scotch on the Rock\u0092 Tasting &#8230; July 25, 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nThe day after the <a href=\"http:\/\/ontheroadwithgrapeguy.blogspot.com\/2010\/07\/report-from-3rd-annual-pine-island.html\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">Pine Island tasting<\/span><\/a>  is now deemed Scotch tasting day.&nbsp; My cousin Jim, who does enjoy his wine, also enjoys Scotch; his buddy Roger, who also enjoys a good glass of wine (or two) is also a Scotch drinker &hellip; last year in response to two happenings they decided it was time to get a Scotch tasting together: 1) they both really enjoy Scotch and 2) I don&rsquo;t and they were determine to turn that around.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, Jim assembled 8 Scotches, which we tried and ranked &ndash; I was not a fan of any.&nbsp; This year he assembled 10, mostly single malt (though he does throw in a few ringers just to see how they stack up) and once again we sat around and talked about them, ranking as we went.&nbsp; This year I found three that were of interest, or, with a little water or an ice cube or two I could actually settle into a chair at the end of the night and enjoy instead of gagging and wishing I were somewhere else.&nbsp; Below a listing of the 10 &ldquo;Scotches&rdquo; &ndash; in the order we tasted them &ndash; from this year&rsquo;s &ldquo;Scotch on the Rock&rdquo; (as it has now been christened) tasting and my notes on each.&nbsp; Remember that I am not a Scotch drinker, nor would I say I am a Scotch taster &#8211; I&rsquo;m in this to learn and have fun: &#8230; <span style=\"color: #000000\">(<a href=\"http:\/\/ontheroadwithgrapeguy.blogspot.com\/2010\/07\/report-from-2nd-annual-pine-island.html\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">Read the list of Scotches tasted and my top three by clicking here<\/span><\/a>)<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/ontheroadwithgrapeguy.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">To read about more interesting adventures thru the world of wine check out the On the Road With the Grape Guy blog.<\/span><\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The day after the Pine Island tasting is now deemed Scotch tasting day.&nbsp; My cousin Jim, who does enjoy his wine, also enjoys Scotch; his buddy Roger, who also enjoys a good glass of wine (or two) is also a Scotch drinker &hellip; last year in response to two happenings they decided it was time [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-on-the-road-with-the-grape-guy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}