{"id":101,"date":"2023-08-21T11:42:50","date_gmt":"2023-08-21T18:42:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/whiskymates.wordpress.com\/?p=101"},"modified":"2026-04-12T16:47:02","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T16:47:02","slug":"flavor-spotlight-oak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.whiskymates.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/21\/flavor-spotlight-oak\/","title":{"rendered":"Flavor Spotlight: Oak"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Oak is the second-most commonly found aroma\/flavor on Whisky Mates, appearing in 53.0% of all whiskies in our catalogue. Oak appears most in Canadian Whisky, at 82.4%, followed by Bourbon, Tennessee Whiskey, and Rye, at 73.4%, 72.7%, and 49.2%, respectively.  American Single Malts contain the least oak flavor, coming in at only 23.1% of whiskies; Japanese Whisky is the runner up on the low end at 27.8%.  For some oak bombs, check out the Bulleit Barrel Strength Bourbon and Jim Beam Devil&#8217;s Cut.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.whiskymates.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/oak.png?w=399\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-103\" style=\"width:533px;height:502px\" width=\"533\" height=\"502\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.whiskymates.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/oak.png 399w, https:\/\/www.whiskymates.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/oak-300x283.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 533px) 100vw, 533px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oak is the second-most commonly found aroma\/flavor on Whisky Mates, appearing in 53.0% of all whiskies in our catalogue. Oak appears most in Canadian Whisky, at 82.4%, followed by Bourbon, Tennessee Whiskey, and Rye, at 73.4%, 72.7%, and 49.2%, respectively. American Single Malts contain the least oak flavor, coming in at only 23.1% of whiskies; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whiskymates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whiskymates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whiskymates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whiskymates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whiskymates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.whiskymates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":261,"href":"https:\/\/www.whiskymates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101\/revisions\/261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whiskymates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whiskymates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whiskymates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}