{"id":2538,"date":"2014-12-24T23:29:34","date_gmt":"2014-12-25T03:29:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adam-jackson.net\/beer\/?p=2538"},"modified":"2014-12-24T23:29:34","modified_gmt":"2014-12-25T03:29:34","slug":"scotch-reviews-1990-signatory-auchroisk-22-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2014\/12\/24\/scotch-reviews-1990-signatory-auchroisk-22-year\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2605 Scotch Reviews: 1990 Signatory Auchroisk 22 year"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:7493,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.flickr.com\\\/photos\\\/adamjackson\\\/15879395588&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20190113061516\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.flickr.com\\\/photos\\\/adamjackson\\\/15879395588\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-11-04 23:58:09&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-02-05 02:23:39&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-02-12 13:41:48&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-02-19 00:21:10&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-07 15:14:19&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-01 15:21:46&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-04 18:30:37&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-04 18:30:37&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:7494,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.binnys.com\\\/spirits\\\/Signatory_Auchroisk_22_year_old_Cask_Strength_Chicago_Cask_50586.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20150310160855\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.binnys.com:80\\\/spirits\\\/Signatory_Auchroisk_22_year_old_Cask_Strength_Chicago_Cask_50586.html&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-11-04 23:58:10&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-02-20 21:16:53&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-07 15:14:21&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403}],&quot;broken&quot;:true,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-07 15:14:21&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p><a title=\"View &#039;Great new Scotch I picked up in Chicago&#039; on Flickr.com\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/adamjackson\/15879395588\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img  loading=\"lazy\"  decoding=\"async\"  style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\"  title=\"Great new Scotch I picked up in Chicago\"  src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAEAAAABAQMAAAAl21bKAAAAA1BMVEUAAP+KeNJXAAAAAXRSTlMAQObYZgAAAAlwSFlzAAAOxAAADsQBlSsOGwAAAApJREFUCNdjYAAAAAIAAeIhvDMAAAAASUVORK5CYII=\"  alt=\"Great new Scotch I picked up in Chicago\"  width=\"480\"  height=\"640\"  border=\"0\"  class=\" pk-lazyload\"  data-pk-sizes=\"auto\"  data-pk-src=\"https:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8660\/15879395588_1e736d5e1f_z.jpg\" ><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I like to pretend that I know what I\u2019m talking about when it comes to distilled spirits but I don\u2019t. I generally follow recommendations from friends or from store-staff and in this case, Binny\u2019s has some selections of Scotch from Signatory and Masters of Malt and this was recommended as a nice low-peat high-age Cask strength Scotch.<\/p>\n<p>I agree that it\u2019s very good, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.binnys.com\/spirits\/Signatory_Auchroisk_22_year_old_Cask_Strength_Chicago_Cask_50586.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">maybe not worth $100 that I paid<\/a> but it\u2019s smooth enough with a very small amount of smoke that it\u2019s worth grabbing if you are interested in older Speyside Scotch. It\u2019s my first Signatory buy and won\u2019t be my last. They aren\u2019t the distiller, Auchroisk is but they buy up casks and do their own bottling and I was impressed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I like to pretend that I know what I\u2019m talking about when it comes to distilled spirits but&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"apple_news_api_created_at":"2016-03-17T02:27:57Z","apple_news_api_id":"4e287bd1-d708-4f02-ab76-9ee76f76189d","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2016-03-17T02:27:57Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/ATih70dcITwKrdp7nb3YYnQ","apple_news_cover_media_provider":"image","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_cover_video_id":0,"apple_news_cover_video_url":"","apple_news_cover_embedwebvideo_url":"","apple_news_is_hidden":"","apple_news_is_paid":"","apple_news_is_preview":"","apple_news_is_sponsored":"","apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":[],"apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_custom_appearance":"","csco_disable_excerpt_posts_layout":false,"csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_location_hash":"","csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[189],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2538","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-whiskey","7":"cs-entry","8":"cs-video-wrap"},"apple_news_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pb3IC4-EW","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2026,"url":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2014\/02\/03\/whiskey-my-first-scotch-tasting\/","url_meta":{"origin":2538,"position":0},"title":"\u2605 Whiskey: My first Scotch Tasting","author":"Adam Chandler","date":"February 3, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Lately, I\u2019ve been trying more Bourbon & Rye Whisky but Scotch is so unknown to me I needed a push from a friend to try more options. 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