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Buffalo Trace alongside Rocky Patel Decade Robusto

A Kentucky straight bourbon alongside a Honduran robusto. Molasses and aniseed against a dark, spicy wrapper.

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Bottle of Buffalo Trace Kentucky Straight Bourbon, whisky

From the shelf

The bottle

Buffalo Trace is a Kentucky straight bourbon from the United States, at 40 percent alcohol by volume. The colour is deep amber. The nose is complex, with vanilla, mint and molasses; on the palate pleasantly sweet with brown sugar, the spiciness of oak, toffee, dark fruit and aniseed, with a long finish.

Buffalo Trace Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey

The combination

Why this works together

The Decade is a 127 mm robusto under a dark wrapper from Ecuador. It gives black pepper and earth on top of a sweet core. Bourbon at 40 percent ABV is softer than most malts and would vanish under a truly heavy cigar, but the molasses and dark fruit here are emphatic enough to carry the pepper. The aniseed in the finish is what keeps the two apart.

Beside the glass

The cigar

We do not sell cigars; we supply the whisky. These cigars go well alongside this bottle.

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This is what the size of the Rocky Patel Decade Robusto looks like: robusto format, 127 mm, short and thick. This is a drawing of our own in our house style, not a photo of the brand; we do not sell cigars.
Bundles of cigars, tied together with a paper band, on a wooden counter
Mood image: bundles of cigars in a tobacco house. These are not the recommended cigars; the actual size is in the drawing alongside.
  • Rocky Patel Decade Robusto Honduran robusto of 127 mm with a dark wrapper: pepper and earth next to molasses and aniseed.
  • Oliva Serie O Robusto Nicaraguan robusto of 127 mm, slightly drier and woodier.
  • Joya de Nicaragua Antaño 1970 Robusto Grande Heavier and more peppery, for those who want the cigar front and centre.
  • Ashton Aged Maduro No. 20 Dark broadleaf wrapper with coffee and sweet wood, closer to the cask influence of the bourbon.

In the glass

Serving

Neat in a tulip-shaped glass or with a single large ice cube. At 40 percent by volume water is not needed. Drink each time after the smoke has left the mouth.

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