Cheese and whisky pairings

[minesascotch]

Hello Fellow Forum Fellows again.

I am having some friends round Thursday night (before we go to Ayr) for some cheese and wine and as we love whisky I was thinking of introducing them to cheese and whisky pairings, I know they will like it and would like to know from yourselves any good pairings you have found.

Cheers

[Carson]

I have only ever tried this at whisky tastings/events and personally i found that the smoky whisky paired best with cheese.

[James T]

Talisker can be lovely with most cheeses, good with Livarot cheese if you dont mind the smell of it.

[Quaich1]

[albo]

I know the SMWS does quite a lot of cheese and whisky tastings, I've never been to one, but I'm sure they go well.

To be fiar the make up of cheese would suggest to me that you need quite a strong whisky regardless of the cheese you have, something too light will quite easily be overpowered by the cheese and unable to cut through the fatty make up of the cheese.

A numeber of people have suggested smokey whisky with cheese, which means there must be something in it. however, traditionally cheese has been served with something sweet, again to cut through the fatty make up. Think grapes, chutney etc. So I'd probalby be thinking about having a good heavey sherry finished whisky in the mix too, a A'Bundh or Glenfarcals 105, something like that.

I also know you can get whisky flavourd cheese, which may make a good talking point too.

[minesascotch]

Thanks everyone for your reply's after, enjoying too much port with the cheese we gave the whisky a miss except for a Lagavulin 16 as our night cap, that went down well with a few crumbs of stilton.

Cheers