As I wrote earlier, I love to spend my time lurking on cocktail blogs and sipping a nice drink. One day I was reading Kaiser Penguin blog, one of my favourite blogs, thanks and respect to Rick , the author (Sorry if I’m wrong…).
There is a nice recipe called “D’Artagnan’s Wish”.
I’ve red it carefully and said – “Wow! I have all ingredients for it, and it looks very-very-very interesting. I should make it immediately!” Then I went and made it.
After first sip my reaction was “Oh dear Lord! Man, bookmark this page quickly! No, no, don’t bookmark, just save it as PDF!!!”
It was a great experience, a moment of pleasure. And I later I felt that I have to write about it.
The essence of this cocktail is a combination of very different flavours of Demerara rum and heavy peated and smoked Islay single malt whisky. They look like different but their combination set me thinking about their similarity.
I love Islay whisky as well as Demerara rum. So the wish of monsieur D’Artagnan is my automatic choice.
This recipe is similar to Rum Sidecar especially if we forget about small quantity of smoky Scotch probably used as aromatic agent. I really wonder how much whisky Rick has used for glass rinsing but my experience tell me that 3-5 ml Laphroaig 10yo whisky made this drink absolutely different from Rum Sidecar.
