Name: Oakenshield
Total time: 4 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 45 ml Scotch whisky; 15 ml Cynar/carciofo amaro; 10 ml Walnut liqueur; 2 drop Saline solution 4:1

Ingredients

1 1/2 fl oz

Blended Scotch whisky

1/2 fl oz

Cynar or other carciofo amaro

1/3 fl oz

Nux Alpina Walnut Liqueur

2 drop

Saline solution (20g sea salt to 80g water) or merest pinch of s

How to make

Glass

Prepare

Select and pre-chill an OLD-FASHIONED GLASS.

Prepare garnish of walnut half.

Method

STIR all ingredients with ice.

STRAIN into ice-filled glass (preferably over a large cube or chunk of block ice).

Garnish

Garnish with walnut half on rim or rested on ice.

Flavour Profile

No alcohol

Medium

Boozy

Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

Health & Nutrition

Nutrition:

One serving of Oakenshield contains 148 calories

Alcohol content:

1.3 standard drinks
26.61% alc./vol. (53.22° proof)
18.7 grams of pure alcohol

Allergens:

Recipe contains the following allergens:

Walnut (Nocino) liqueur — Nuts

Comments & Discussion

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John CARR Premium Member 22w

Johnnie Walker double black. Wonderful combination of flavours. Intense and full of character, show casing the whiskey and the Nocello. Could do something super interesting with an Islay scotch. Or even something like the four pillars green ant gin. Your very good health!

John CARR Premium Member 22w

I assume the title is a reference to Thorin Oakenshield in The Hobbit?

Simon Sedgley Premium Member 1y

We do love these pared back, no-nonsense wee-small-hours sippers. Add a drop or two of Boker's or chocolate bitters if you're game.

John CARR Premium Member 22w

Or some tawny port perhaps?

Simon Sedgley Premium Member 22w

Yes, a great suggestion. We have a Chambers Rosewood Rutherglen Tawney...magic stuff.

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Nicholas Sowards 3y

I'm too afraid to put that much saline in! Is it actually 2 dashes? Or should it be drops?

Simon Difford Verified User Premium Member 3y

Thanks for bringing to my attention, Nicholas. Now corrected to show just 2 drops.

John Hinojos Premium Member 3y

As a walnut lover, this is outstanding. Perfect as an after-dinner cocktail or evening sipper. Wonderful hints of the scotch and the walnut. The Cynar enhances the walnut flavours. Wonderful on a cold evening.

Nicola Adams 5y

A bit less whiskey ands a bit more nocello and it reminds me of the woods on a wet day in Autumn. There’s a definite dankness to the flavours, in a bad way, tho if you were to I use a heavily peated Isla whisky it could be a bit much, like you’d stuck your face in some mushroom compost.... I can’t help wondering if and how I could use moss as a garnish.