(Demerara Distillers, Miami) Renegade Uitvlught 1995, Guyana $84 ★★★ (Three Stars) 12 years, 92 proof True rum sweetness embellished with Scotch-like smoky, grassy aromas.
My sweet, sweet, sweetness.
But although Blanc whips up an exotic fruit gratin with guava sabayon to prove his point (and it's true that the sweetness of the coconut milk tastes fantastic against the lime syrup), it is his pumpkin soup made with oat milk, which he recently showed me how to make in his cookery school, that really hit the spot for me, not least because the combination is less predictable.
Pinot Noir is made to bring out the true delicacy and sweetness of wine.
Martin noted in 1697 that the citizens seemed "happier than the generality of mankind as being almost the only people in the world who feel the sweetness of true liberty", and in the 19th century their health and well being was contrasted favourably with conditions elsewhere in the Hebrides.
It tasted more like a good, full-bodied English bitter: malty, with a well-balanced sweetness and a true, lingering bitterness.
That the man who had this range was capable of both nastiness and sweetness is undoubtedly true, but that does not elevate his life to the fascinating level of his art.
Some wonderful wines, including many German whites, true Champagnes and Vouvrays, balance sweetness and acidity without a cloy in the bottleful.
Bullmore's implied thesis is that true friendships are not all sweetness and light.
Fava bean agnolotti tasted more vibrantly of fava bean than seemed possible, and the swish of vivid red beneath a sea scallop had a sweetness purer and truer than I thought a beet could yield.
