{"id":5065,"date":"2023-08-26T22:26:18","date_gmt":"2023-08-26T22:26:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.davedrinksbeer.com\/?post_type=embm_beer&#038;p=5065"},"modified":"2023-08-26T23:43:58","modified_gmt":"2023-08-26T23:43:58","slug":"hennessy-vsop-privelege","status":"publish","type":"embm_beer","link":"https:\/\/www.davedrinksbeer.com\/index.php\/beers\/hennessy-vsop-privelege\/","title":{"rendered":"Hennessy &#8211; VSOP Privel\u00e9ge"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_5066\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5066\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5066\" src=\"https:\/\/www.davedrinksbeer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/PSX_20230826_181212-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.davedrinksbeer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/PSX_20230826_181212-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.davedrinksbeer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/PSX_20230826_181212-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.davedrinksbeer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/PSX_20230826_181212-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/www.davedrinksbeer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/PSX_20230826_181212-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.davedrinksbeer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/PSX_20230826_181212-1240x1653.jpg 1240w, https:\/\/www.davedrinksbeer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/PSX_20230826_181212-508x677.jpg 508w, https:\/\/www.davedrinksbeer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/PSX_20230826_181212-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-5066\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hennessy.com\/en-us\/collection\/hennessy-vsop\">Hennessy VSOP<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Smells of fig, molasses, raisin, and vanilla with very little &#8220;booziness.&#8221; Taste is fairly sweet with flavors of cherry, apple, honey, grape juice, pear, and apricot. The finish is long with a warmth but no real burn, featuring notes of vanilla, fig, and brown sugar that slowly fades into oak, tobacco, and a hint of forest floor. Overall, much more enjoyable to sip on than the VS, and similar to the armagnac but with more oak. Definitely worth the extra $10 or less over the VS.<\/p>\n<p>A sidecar is very smooth and tastes of candied lemon and orange with a hint of figgy raisins, but the oak and perhaps most of the nuance of the cognac is buried.<\/p>\n<p>A Cognac Rose is a perfect harmony between lemon, grenadine, and spirit, though the oak is quite attenuated.<\/p>\n<p>A Cognac Jack tastes like lemon drops and apples, with just a hint of dry oak in the finish, but for the most part the cognac is completely hidden.<\/p>\n<p>An Old Fashioned is smooth, with notes of citrus, oak, vanilla, and brown sugar. I&#8217;d honestly recommend either Old Fashioneds (and maybe Manhattans, I&#8217;m currently out of red vermouth) or just sipping the VSOP straight, VS for all other cocktails.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":5067,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","embm_styles":[255],"embm_groups":[],"embm_menus":[],"class_list":["post-5065","embm_beer","type-embm_beer","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","embm_style-cognac"],"embm_profile":{"malts":"&quot;A blend of over 60 eaux-de-vie from the Cognac region&#039;s four premier crus.&quot;","hops":"&quot;Aged between 5 and 15 years in Limousin oak barrels&quot;","additions":"","yeast":"","abv":40,"ibu":null},"embm_extras":{"availability":"","notes":"","beer_number":null},"embm_untappd":{"id":null},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davedrinksbeer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/embm_beers\/5065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davedrinksbeer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/embm_beers"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davedrinksbeer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/embm_beer"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davedrinksbeer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5065"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.davedrinksbeer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/embm_beers\/5065\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5074,"href":"https:\/\/www.davedrinksbeer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/embm_beers\/5065\/revisions\/5074"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davedrinksbeer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davedrinksbeer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"embm_style","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davedrinksbeer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/embm_styles?post=5065"},{"taxonomy":"embm_group","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davedrinksbeer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/embm_groups?post=5065"},{"taxonomy":"embm_menu","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davedrinksbeer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/embm_menus?post=5065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}