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70 cl · 61.2% · Single Malt

Aberlour A’Bunadh Cask Strength Batch #84
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Aberlour A'Bunadh Cask Strength Batch #84

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At the table with Aberlour A'Bunadh Cask Strength Batch #84

Whisky · Scotland · 61.2%

Why this works together

Chosen by type (whisky). Whisky goes with dishes that have their own character, with an aged cheese and, after the meal, with something with chocolate, caramel or nuts.

What is needed

For 4 people

Seared scallops with hazelnut butterWith the mealSeared scallops with hazelnut butter

Ingredients

  • 12 scallops
  • 80 grams butter
  • 40 grams hazelnuts
  • 1 lemon
  • 100 grams lamb's lettuce
  • sea salt and pepper

Method

  1. Toast the hazelnuts golden brown in a dry frying pan, rub off the skins and chop them coarsely.
  2. Pat the scallops dry and season them with sea salt and pepper.
  3. Heat a dash of oil in a frying pan and fry the scallops golden brown for 1.5 to 2 minutes per side.
  4. Melt the butter in a saucepan until it smells nutty brown and add the hazelnuts and a dash of lemon juice.
  5. Divide the lamb's lettuce between the plates, place the scallops on top and spoon the hazelnut butter over them.
With the cheeseMature cheddar

Ingredients

  • 160 grams mature cheddar

Method

  1. Take the cheese out of the fridge about an hour before serving; that brings out the flavour best.
  2. Only cut or break the cheese just before serving.
Chocolate trufflesAfter the mealChocolate truffles

Ingredients

  • 200 grams dark chocolate
  • 150 millilitres whipping cream
  • 20 grams butter
  • 3 tablespoons cocoa powder

Method

  1. Finely chop the chocolate and put it in a bowl.
  2. Bring the cream just to the boil and pour it over the chocolate.
  3. Leave for 1 minute, stir to a smooth ganache and stir in the butter.
  4. Leave the ganache to set, covered, in the fridge for at least 2 hours.
  5. Scoop small portions with a teaspoon, quickly roll them into balls and coat them in the cocoa powder.
  6. Keep cool and take them out of the fridge a quarter of an hour before serving.

To pour 4 cl per person

  • 1 bottle of Aberlour A'Bunadh Cask Strength Batch #84

The quantities are a guide for home cooking; salt, pepper and oil for frying are not always listed.

Photos: Seared scallops with hazelnut butter: avlxyz, CC BY-SA 2.0 · Chocolate truffles: cobaltfish, CC BY-SA 2.0

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After the meal

A cigar with Aberlour A'Bunadh Cask Strength Batch #84

We have worked out this cigar alongside Monkey Shoulder, another whisky from Scotland.

Cigars
Our choice

Davidoff Signature 2000

Dominican corona of 127 mm under a Connecticut wrapper, light in weight and low in pepper.

Why this works together

The Signature 2000 is 127 mm long and slim in ring gauge. Under a Connecticut wrapper, that size gives wood and cream and hardly any pepper. With a blended malt of 40 percent ABV, that is the right order of magnitude: the caramel in the whisky and the cream in the tobacco lie close together, without either one taking over.

Also good with this whisky

  • Macanudo Café Hyde ParkRobusto with the same mild wrapper, slightly thicker and so fuller in smoke.
  • AVO Classic No. 2Dominican under a Connecticut wrapper, longer but just as restrained.
  • H. Upmann Coronas JuniorCuban petit corona of 110 mm, drier in tone, as a counterweight to the caramel.

We do not sell cigars; we supply the whisky.

Photo: sridgway, CC BY 2.0

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