Drinking neat and sweet

DOMINIC ROSKROW AND A SMALL TEAM OF TASTERS SPENT A LUNCHTIME DRINKING LIQUEURS

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Taking a whisky writer to a liqueur tasting is a bit like taking a lifelong Rolling Stones fan to a Britney Spears concert – the best you're going to get is a grudging acceptance that it's okay if you like that sort of thing.

But the Scots are famed for their love of anything sweet. So letting a panel loose on a table of drinks that taste like vanilla ice cream and chocolate pudding at the same time should prove to be a sure fire success.

Ah, but what happens when you mix the two and hold a tasting with some whisky writers who also happen to be Scottish and Scottish writers who profess to liking whisky?

This, I concluded on the morning of our liqueur tasting, would be the whole point of this experiment. That's why we do tastings; in the hope t...

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• By : Dominic Roskrow
• In : Drinks
• Issue : 10
• Page : 68
• Words : 539