Heart of Islay 2.0
{104} Heart of Islay 2.0, originally uploaded by The Inadvertent Gardener.
Book Club met for cocktails tonight at Conduit in the Mission, and as soon as I walked in, Jen Maiser handed me a drink to taste. I loved it…to her surprise. “You like drinks that taste like an ashtray?” she asked.
Indeed, I do. At least, when that smoky flavor is coming on Islay-style, I do.
Reza made me my own copy, and gave me a separate taste of the key ingredient: Black Bottle 10-year Scotch. It’s the only blended whiskey that contains all the seven Islay single malts, but recently, one of the seven was bought out by a foreign buyer, and has refused to participate in the blending anymore. What’s available in bottles now is all that’s left.
The drink itself was Black Bottle 10-year Scotch, sweet vermouth and blackberries, as opposed to the version 1.0 offered on the menu, which had the same ingredients, but with blood orange instead of berries.
365 in 2009 
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