Peat Smoked Salmon and liquid refreshment!

Our Peat Smoked Salmon is rich and robustly flavoured and finding the perfect liquid accompaniment can be problematic. Generally when selecting wine it is a good idea to select wines that possess a full bodied character such as good white Burgundy from Mersault or St Aubin or, from the same grape variety, chardonnays from the better producers in the New World such as Penfolds or Wolff Blass.

The other natural partner to our salmon is peaty malt whisky and the whiskies from Islay on the Scottish West Coast fit the bill perfectly. Of all the malt whiskies produced in Scotland it is these that can, from the nose alone, transport you to West Highland villages and the reek of peat burning from chimneys in the early evening. We can wholeheartedly recommend Islay malt with Peat Smoked Salmon for a very special first course or together with a pre-dinner canapé, each enhancing and complimenting the other.

A truly superb range of Islay malt whiskies is available by mail order from www.royalmilewhiskies.com as well as from their shops in Edinburgh and London. Their website will tell you all you need to know when selecting these and other malts.
One Islay malt we can heartily recommend is their own bottling of Young Peaty Malt – very exclusive!