I read one actual recommendation for chocolate and Guiness -- timely.

We have a local Scotch tasting group nearby in Ontario (no chocolate). When
they do their tastings they have a drawing for the dregs.

I am efinitely going to look into scotch and chocolate -- just the thought
tastes good.

Lefty
--
Life is for learning




"Bronwyn" > wrote in message
ups.com...
> I was in Scotland in September last year and by some splendid
> coincidence, caught the last half-day of a whisky festival in Speyside.
> For 15 quid I sat in on a talk & tastings on 'sherried whiskies' by a
> Danish illuminary where he paired the whiskey tastings with dark
> chocolate. It was amazing. A square of chocolate melted in the mouth
> followed by a sip of whisky.
> I'll look up the names of the particular malt whiskies later if anyone
> is interested.
>
> After this tasting, for 5 pounds there was the Dregs Party to finish
> the bottles of whiskies opened over the past 3 days. Thought I had
> died and gone to heaven - a table of maybe 60 whisky bottles -
> wonderful malts etc and boutique labels. The Scots are so polite,
> everyone stood around chatting nicely and sampling it all! I kept
> thinking, that home in Australia, everyone would have been legless and
> under the table by this time LOL
> Very refined it was.
>
> Cheers
> Bronnie
> Qld Australia
>