Under the best circumstances it results in a whiskey with a long, dry finish with just a hint of bitterness, a perfect counterfoil to the sweetness and spiciness created by extended wood contact.
The Ottoman Empire, as the predominant Muslim power in the region and controller of the Caliphate in Constantinople, offered the only counterfoil to Russian and British ambitions.
Other Russian features include the liberal use of pedal points and the employment of chromaticism for decorative counterpoint and as an abrasive counterfoil to a melody.
And, as in other scholars' attempts to discern the shapes of the twenty-first-century city (see, for example, Caldeira 2001), these memories of a past, quintessentially modern city serve as a counterfoil and analytical comparison.
This may take the form of a pool or collection of tickets or their counterfoils from which the winners are extracted.
The president "was supporting the Halcones as a counterfoil to the activist left-wing," and "may well have given his blessing to the use of the group" against the demonstrators, the State Department said in its report on June 17 , 1971
Is this the counterfoil To sweetest music?
While dátiles con tocino sounded a mite sweet, the Spanish Valderon blue cheese stuffing in the dates and the crisp bacon wrapped around them made a perfect counterfoil.
Breezy, confident and ultracompetent, Rajiv serves as a maddening counterfoil to his struggling younger brother, whose waffling and zigzag career path infuriates their father.
This tale bookends Lost and Found in Johannesburg and its complexity is surely the perfect counterfoil to the idea that the only way to deal with an intruder in today's South Africa is to shoot four times through a locked door.
