{"id":20931,"date":"2017-02-01T12:21:56","date_gmt":"2017-02-01T12:21:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dutyfreehunter.com\/blog\/?p=20931"},"modified":"2019-01-23T10:32:42","modified_gmt":"2019-01-23T10:32:42","slug":"inspired-sun-glenmorangie-releases-bacalta-private-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dutyfreehunter.com\/blog\/inspired-sun-glenmorangie-releases-bacalta-private-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"Inspired by the Sun: Glenmorangie releases Bacalta Private Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Glenmorangie has unveiled Bacalta, the eighth of its annual Private Edition releases, a single malt whisky extra-matured in Madeira wine casks.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Inspired by the Highland distillery\u2019s discontinued Madeira Wood Finish \u2013 claimed as the first whisky of that type \u2013 Glenmorangie Bacalta (Scots Gaelic for \u2018baked\u2019) spent two years in former Madeira wine casks after roughly 10 years\u2019 maturation in ex-Bourbon barrels.<\/p>\n<p>The Madeira casks were constructed, toasted and seasoned with sweet Malmsey Madeira wine for two years in a traditional canteiro \u2013 a warehouse heated by the sun on the Portuguese island \u2013 in line with the specifications of Dr Bill Lumsden, Glenmorangie\u2019s director of distilling, whisky creation and whisky stocks.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dutyfreehunter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/bacalta_bottle_crop-588f7e0b78f51.jpg\"><img data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dutyfreehunter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/bacalta_bottle_crop-588f7e0b78f51.jpg 290w, https:\/\/www.dutyfreehunter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/bacalta_bottle_crop-588f7e0b78f51-113x300.jpg 113w\" decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.dutyfreehunter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/bacalta_bottle_crop-588f7e0b78f51.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-20933 lazyload\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\" alt=\"\"    sizes=\"(max-width: 290px) 100vw, 290px\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-20933\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dutyfreehunter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/bacalta_bottle_crop-588f7e0b78f51.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"290\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dutyfreehunter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/bacalta_bottle_crop-588f7e0b78f51.jpg 290w, https:\/\/www.dutyfreehunter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/bacalta_bottle_crop-588f7e0b78f51-113x300.jpg 113w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 290px) 100vw, 290px\" \/><\/noscript><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2018For years I had longed to create the best Madeira-finished whisky possible,\u2019 said Dr Lumsden. \u2018Realising that ambition took time and dedication, as every step of extra-maturation was tailored exactly to our specifications \u2013 rather like haute couture.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Bottled at 46% abv and non-chill-filtered, Glenmorangie Bacalta will be available from specialist whisky retailers with a UK RRP of \u00a379 a bottle. Travel retail and duty-free availability to be confirmed, we have requested this information.<\/p>\n<p><strong>See more at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.glenmorangie.com\">https:\/\/www.glenmorangie.com<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Glenmorangie has unveiled Bacalta, the eighth of its annual Private Edition releases, a single malt whisky extra-matured in Madeira wine casks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":20934,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,7099,7097],"tags":[3738,3737,832],"class_list":["post-20931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-spirits","category-wines-spirits","tag-glenmorangie-duty-free","tag-glenmorangie-whisky","tag-scotch-whisky"],"acf":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dutyfreehunter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dutyfreehunter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dutyfreehunter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dutyfreehunter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dutyfreehunter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dutyfreehunter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20931\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dutyfreehunter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dutyfreehunter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dutyfreehunter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dutyfreehunter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}