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70 cl · 40% · Blended

The Busker Triple Cask Triple Smooth
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The Busker Triple Cask Triple Smooth

Recommendation for this bottle

At the table with The Busker Triple Cask Triple Smooth

Whisky · Ireland · 40%

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

Duck breast with cherry sauceWith the mealDuck breast with cherry sauce

Ingredients

  • 2 duck breasts
  • 300 grams cherries
  • 100 millilitres red wine
  • 1 tablespoon honey
  • 20 grams butter
  • 800 grams potatoes

Method

  1. Peel the potatoes and boil them in salted water for about 20 minutes until tender.
  2. Score the skin of the duck breasts in a diamond pattern, season with salt and pepper and stone the cherries.
  3. Place the duck breasts skin side down in a cold pan and cook them for 8 to 10 minutes until the skin is crisp.
  4. Turn them over, cook them for 3 to 4 minutes for pink, and leave them to rest, covered, for 5 minutes.
  5. Pour most of the fat out of the pan and cook the cherries with the red wine and the honey for 5 minutes to make a sauce.
  6. Whisk the butter into the sauce, slice the duck breast and serve with the sauce and the potatoes.
Aged GoudaWith the cheeseAged Gouda

Ingredients

  • 160 grams aged Gouda

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 The Busker Triple Cask Triple Smooth

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

Photos: Duck breast with cherry sauce: CharmaineZoe's Marvelous Melange, CC BY 2.0 · Aged Gouda: goblinbox_(queen_of_ad_hoc_bento), CC BY 2.0 · Chocolate truffles: cobaltfish, CC BY-SA 2.0

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After the meal

A cigar with The Busker Triple Cask Triple Smooth

We have paired this cigar with Yellow Spot 12 Years Old Irish Whiskey, another whisky from Ireland.

Cigars
Our choice

Arturo Fuente Don Carlos No. 4

Dominican corona of 143 mm under a Cameroon wrapper: nutty and spicy alongside apple and custard.

Why this works together

The Don Carlos No. 4 is a corona of 143 mm under a Cameroon wrapper. That wrapper is spicy without sharp pepper and gives nut rather than earth. That nuttiness runs in step with the nuts in the whiskey, while the spice lifts out its custard sweetness. At 46 per cent ABV the bottle has enough weight to carry that spice.

Also good with this whisky

  • Davidoff Millennium Blend RobustoRobusto of 127 mm, shorter and firmer, with more pepper against the sweetness.
  • Hoyo de Monterrey Epicure No. 1Cuban corona gorda of 143 mm with sweeter wood, closer to the toffee.
  • Montecristo Petit EdmundoPetit robusto of 110 mm with cocoa, for a shorter moment.

We do not sell cigars; we supply the whisky.

Photo: alexbrn, CC BY 2.0

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