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70 cl · 40% · Blended

The Famous Grouse 16 Years Double Matured
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The Famous Grouse 16 Years Double Matured

Recommendation for this bottle

At the table with The Famous 16 Years Double Matured

Whisky · Scotland · 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

Venison steak with forest fruit sauceWith the mealVenison steak with forest fruit sauce

Ingredients

  • 4 venison steaks of 150 grams
  • 200 grams forest fruits
  • 100 millilitres red wine
  • 100 millilitres game stock
  • 30 grams butter
  • 1 kilo potatoes
  • 400 grams Brussels sprouts

Method

  1. Take the steaks out of the fridge half an hour before cooking and season them with salt and pepper.
  2. Peel the potatoes and boil them in salted water for about 20 minutes until tender.
  3. Trim the Brussels sprouts and boil them for 6 to 8 minutes until just tender.
  4. Fry the steaks in hot butter for 2 to 3 minutes per side and leave them to rest, covered, for 5 minutes.
  5. Deglaze the pan with the red wine and game stock, add the forest fruits and reduce to a glossy sauce.
  6. Slice the meat on the diagonal and serve with the sauce, the potatoes and the Brussels sprouts.
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.
Dark chocolate cakeAfter the mealDark chocolate cake

Ingredients

  • 200 grams dark chocolate
  • 150 grams butter
  • 150 grams sugar
  • 4 eggs
  • 50 grams flour
  • cocoa powder for dusting

Method

  1. Preheat the oven to 180 °C and grease a springform tin with butter.
  2. Melt the chocolate with the butter in a bain-marie.
  3. Whisk the eggs with the sugar until fluffy and fold in the chocolate mixture.
  4. Fold in the flour with a pinch of salt and pour the batter into the tin.
  5. Bake for 25 to 30 minutes until the edge has set and the centre is still slightly moist.
  6. Leave to cool and dust with cocoa powder.

To pour 4 cl per person

  • 1 bottle of The Famous 16 Years Double Matured

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

Photos: Venison steak with forest fruit sauce: Flyinace2000, CC BY-SA 2.0 · Aged Gouda cheese: goblinbox_(queen_of_ad_hoc_bento), CC BY 2.0 · Dark chocolate cake: avlxyz, CC BY-SA 2.0

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After the meal

A cigar with The Famous 16 Years Double Matured

We have paired this cigar with Kilkerran 12 Year Old, another whisky from Scotland.

Cigars
Our choice

Arturo Fuente Hemingway Short Story

Short Dominican perfecto under a Cameroon wrapper; sweetish spice against the dry pepper of the malt.

Why this works together

The Short Story has a Cameroon wrapper, which gives a sweetish spiciness rather than sharp pepper. The dry pepper is therefore in the glass and not in the cigar, so the two complement each other instead of doubling the same note. The perfecto format tapers at both ends: the cigar smokes more concentrated at first and then opens up.

Also good with this whisky

  • Arturo Fuente Hemingway SignatureThe same blend in a longer perfecto, for those sitting for more than half an hour.
  • Oliva Serie GNicaraguan cigar, also with a Cameroon wrapper, medium in strength and widely available.
  • Davidoff Nicaragua Short CoronaShort size with Nicaraguan tobacco; more peppery than the Fuentes and therefore the strongest of this line-up.

We do not sell cigars; we supply the whisky.

Photo: alexbrn, CC BY 2.0

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