Whiskey firms like to collaborate with chocolatiers, and we’re not about to recommend they cease. The newest to hit our doorstep is a collab between Woodford Reserve and connoisseur chocolate model Compartés, with a four-piece chocolate assortment construct round Woodford Reserve Double Oaked Bourbon.
Compartés chocolatier Jonathan Grahm teamed up with Woodford Reserve Grasp Distiller Elizabeth McCall to create distinctive chocolate designed to pair seamlessly with Double Oaked. Handcrafted by a small group of chocolatiers in Los Angeles, every of the 4 truffle flavors enhances the Double Oaked candy fragrant taste profile.
“Jonathan Grahm is a real genius and artist,” McCall mentioned. “The tasting notes of wooden, spice, and florals discovered within the sweets align completely with the flavors present in Woodford Reserve Double Oaked.”
Compartés x Woodford Reserve sweets are handcrafted with an exquisite gold design and embrace 4 distinctive flavors that intensify particular traits of Double Oaked:
• Butterscotch chocolate compliments the candy fragrant flavors in Double Oaked, enhancing the butterscotch notes and bringing out the roasted espresso taste. The mixture of the bourbon and butterscotch chocolate tastes like chocolate-covered espresso beans.
• Pear Nutmeg chocolate highlights Double Oaked’s fruit, floral, and spice flavors. It brings out the sharp cedar, pepper spice and the darkish raisin character of the bourbon.
• Oak Smoked Salt Caramel chocolate pairs with the wooden, spice, and candy fragrant flavors of Double Oaked. The smoked salt makes the mouth water, adopted by natural tea and tobacco notes and a dry cocoa end.
• Maple Pecan chocolate enhances Double Oaked’s grain, wooden, and candy fragrant notes. The chocolate highlights candy brown sugar and maple notes, in addition to the candy oak and nutty pecan, almond, and walnut flavors of the bourbon.
The four-piece assortment, obtainable completely at ReserveBar and on the distillery, prices $86 — however you get a bottle of Double Oaked to sip alongside it, so the worth isn’t all that dangerous.
We received the equipment (although we needed to provide our personal whiskey). Ideas comply with.
First ideas: Wow, 4 sweets isn’t very a lot. It took all of 5 minutes to devour these — even doing so thoughtfully — and sipping some customary Woodford Reserve alongside. (No Double Oaked was readily available for the event, alas.) The Oak Smoked Salt Caramel was simply my favourite due to its exuberant, barely smoky and fairly salty-sweet taste, adopted by the Maple Pecan, which was arguably the very best pairing with bourbon, all its southern flavors on show. The Pear Nutmeg was a enjoyable twist — there are tiny chunks of candied pear inside, giving it some heft — whereas the Butterscotch chocolate was the one actual miss; I didn’t get any butterscotch taste from it in any respect; had I been requested to guess, I’d have pegged it as based mostly on coconut or nougat.
Both manner, the four-pack was a scrumptious little dessert that was straightforward to share with my spouse on a weekday night. Get it when you can!
A- / $86 (with a bottle of Woodford) / [BUY IT NOW FROM RESERVEBAR]
Woodford x Compartes Restricted Version Chocolate Assortment
$86
