Recipes for
Glen Moray fried courgette flowers,
goats cheese and honey and Glen Moray
Oloroso Breeze whisky cocktail.

Glen Moray has teamed up with award
winning chef Ben Tish to present ‘Cask
Stories’ which dives into the world of
wood to explore the importance of cask
flavour and character of their Glen
Moray single malt whisky range.
Ben has
created some top restaurant quality Glen
Moray influenced food dishes and to wash
them down Ben’s long standing head
sommelier Julien Hennebelle has
collaborated with him to create four
long, refreshing Glen Moray cocktails.
Ben says:
"I'm a big sherry fan- particularly dry
sherry and have travelled the length and
breadth of Jerez picking and tasting –
usually accompanied by tapas. When I
tasted the sherry cask whisky, I was
very excited- it’s a joy to drink with
the sherry notes coming through and it
matches this dish brilliantly. I thought
long and hard about my matching dish-
crisp fried courgette flowers with a
rich, salty cheese and sweet honey- the
salty sweet combination works well with
the sherry's notes.
"I've been cooking variations of this
dish for many years- fried squash or
courgette flowers are very popular
around the Mediterranean but less so in
the UK- a shame as they are delicious
and a wonderful vessel for stuffing. The
rowdy tapas bars of Spain will always
feature a fried flower in the summer
months- and pair with a fino or Oloroso
sherry to wash it down with before
moving onto the next bar and doing it
again with a different delicious tapa. I
love this culture, this social way of
eating and drinking, trying many
different flavours as you go."
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