{"id":1198,"date":"2016-02-19T16:57:29","date_gmt":"2016-02-19T16:57:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/?p=1198"},"modified":"2025-04-21T13:27:00","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T13:27:00","slug":"follow-up-to-the-spirt-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/?p=1198","title":{"rendered":"Follow up to The Spirt World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was recently introduced to three aged rums that\u00a0are well suited for sipping.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rhumjmusa.com\/index.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rhum J.M. VSOP<\/a>: It was kind of\u00a0savory with a lot of bark tendencies.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.appletonestate.com\/en\/rare-blend-12-year-old\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Appleton Estate Rare Blend<\/a>: A 12 year old (versus the 3 year old above) with a strong spicy fruit taste.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/theeldoradorum.com\/our-portfolio\/luxury-cask-aged\/15-year-old\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">El Dorado 15 year old<\/a>: It was like candied nuts! \u00a0Absolutely delicious. (Runs about $45, more than Appleton, but less than Rhum JM)<\/p>\n<p>So grab your <a href=\"http:\/\/theclassickitchen.net\/products\/ice-ball-maker?utm_medium=cpc&amp;utm_source=googlepla&amp;variant=3812234116\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ice ball<\/a> and pour some sipping rum into a glass, you&#8217;ll be surprised. You can also ask your favorite bartended, it leads to a great conversation.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was recently introduced to three aged rums that\u00a0are well suited for sipping. Rhum J.M. VSOP: It was kind of\u00a0savory with a lot of bark tendencies. Appleton Estate Rare Blend: A 12 year old (versus the 3 year old above) with a strong spicy fruit taste. El Dorado 15 year old: It was like candied nuts! \u00a0Absolutely delicious. (Runs about $45, more than Appleton, but less than Rhum JM) So grab your ice ball and pour some sipping rum into a glass, you&#8217;ll be surprised. You can also ask your favorite bartended, it leads to a great conversation. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,40],"tags":[243,290],"class_list":["post-1198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","category-lifestyle","tag-cocktails","tag-rum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1198"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1198\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3007,"href":"http:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1198\/revisions\/3007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}