Michel Couvreur The Unique Single Malt Whisky 70 cl 44% 44

Distillery: Michel Couvreur
Name : The Unique
Age : NA
Type: Single Malt Whisky
Alc. strength: 44%
Un-chillfiltered
Natural Colour
70 cl.

Fresh Filling and approximately 3 years of cask ageing. Bottled in its natural strength silky elegance.

Michel Couvreur
Uncompromising buyer with a passion for quality. Michel Couvreur's working methods are unique. He's the kind of guy who goes above and beyond the call of duty. Couvreur imports sherry to his Domaine in Beaune, France. He bottles the sherry and fills the imported whisky in the fresh casks on the same day. This is called "Fresh Filling" and Michel Couvreur is today the only one practicing this method. Fresh Filling is the equivalent of turbocharging the cask ageing process, and this is clearly evident in Couvreur's Whisky, where the style can be described as surprisingly full-bodied and rounded, with an incredibly broad flavor palette. Scotch whisky. An immaculately dressed Belgian. Cool cellars in the French wine region of Burgundy. Any connection? Yes, absolutely - the connection is Michel Couvreur. Couvreur began in 1951 (!) as a retailer of the finest wines from Burgundy, but from 1978 onwards, he turned his perfectionist mind to whisky, and today he is a living legend in the world of whisky. Burgundy still plays a role, however, as the young whiskies Couvreur buys in Scotland (carefully selected, of course) are all finished in deep cellars in the village of Bouze-les-Beaune, where Couvreur himself lives. It may sound odd that Michel Couvreur insists on running his business in Burgundy when whiskies are the heart and soul of his business, but that's because he swears by 'fresh filling' when aging his whiskies in Spanish sherry casks - the classic use of sherry casks when making whiskies. The sherry must first be emptied from the casks just before they are filled with whisky. Today, no one but Couvreur does this practice, as it is expensive and laborious. But Couvreur himself says that "fresh filling" gives a 4-5 year old whisky the character of a 30 year old whisky that has been aged in used casks. That's why Michel Couvreur finds his casks in Jerez and, with the help of Emilio Lustau, gains access to exceptional casks at Alamacenistas, which are then shipped - with sherry - to Burgundy. Here they become the indispensable component in Couyvreur's fine polishing of the young whiskies. The small Burgundy town of Bouzeles-Beaune is ideally located exactly halfway between Jerez and the Scottish Highlands.