{"id":6693,"date":"2015-08-17T11:39:00","date_gmt":"2015-08-17T11:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dutyfreehunter.com\/blog\/?p=6693"},"modified":"2019-01-23T10:36:52","modified_gmt":"2019-01-23T10:36:52","slug":"single-malt-in-the-freezer-dalwhinnie-unveils-winters-gold-scotch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dutyfreehunter.com\/blog\/single-malt-in-the-freezer-dalwhinnie-unveils-winters-gold-scotch\/","title":{"rendered":"Single Malt in the freezer? Dalwhinnie unveils Winter&#8217;s Gold Scotch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The UK\u2019s highest distillery, Dalwhinnie, has launched a new Scotch whisky created using only casks laid down in winter months.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Dalwhinnie Winter\u2019s Gold is said to have a sweet aroma of fruit, caramel, apricot and orange zest, and a taste of spice, gingerbread, malt loaf molasses and mint.\u00a0Dalwhinnie suggests Winter\u2019s Gold is served frozen for a \u201csyrupy mouthfeel\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The cold weather conditions at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.discovering-distilleries.com\/dalwhinnie\/malts.php\" target=\"_blank\">Dalwhinnie<\/a>, based in an eponymous Highland village in Cairngorm National Park, are thought to affect the taste profile of the whiskies it produces.\u00a0The colder the weather, the less contact the liquid has with copper when passing through the distillery\u2019s traditional worm tubs, leading to a \u201csulphuric\u201d flavour as a new make spirit and \u201choneyed\u201d whisky after maturation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDistilled in the depths of winter at the highest distillery in the UK, Winter\u2019s Gold honours the influence that the cold has on Dalwhinnie,\u201d said Dalwhinnie distillery manager Bruce Mackenzie.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur master blender, Dr Craig Wilson, only selects casks laid during Scottish winter months to create a golden, rich single malt whisky.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Due in stores from September &#8211; we are checking for its likely availability in airport duty free stores such as World of Whiskies at\u00a0UK airports.<\/p>\n<p>For a full review read what our favourite whisky expert, Miss Whisky, has to say&#8230;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/misswhisky.com\/2015\/08\/04\/dalwhinnie-winters-gold\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/misswhisky.com\/2015\/08\/04\/dalwhinnie-winters-gold\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dutyfreehunter.com\" target=\"_blank\">www.dutyfreehunter.com<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dutyfreehunter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/WINTERS-GOLD_BOTTLE_BOX-276x300.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.dutyfreehunter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/WINTERS-GOLD_BOTTLE_BOX-276x300.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6694 lazyload\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\" alt=\"WINTERS-GOLD_BOTTLE_BOX-276x300\"   \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6694\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dutyfreehunter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/WINTERS-GOLD_BOTTLE_BOX-276x300.jpg\" alt=\"WINTERS-GOLD_BOTTLE_BOX-276x300\" width=\"276\" height=\"300\"><\/noscript><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The UK\u2019s highest distillery, Dalwhinnie, has launched a new Scotch whisky created using only casks laid down in winter months.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":6695,"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":[377,720,721,47,103,273],"class_list":["post-6693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-spirits","category-wines-spirits","tag-airport-shopping","tag-dalwhinnie","tag-duty-free-shopping","tag-malt-whisky","tag-whisky","tag-world-duty-free"],"acf":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dutyfreehunter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6693","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=6693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dutyfreehunter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6693\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dutyfreehunter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dutyfreehunter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dutyfreehunter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dutyfreehunter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}