About
Wine-influenced ageing gives elegance, texture and complexity. A genuinely unique style — French maturation, Scottish spirit.
Michel Couvreur was a Belgian who made wine in Burgundy in the 1950s, moved to Scotland in 1964 and fell for whisky. He came back to France in the 1970s and dug a cellar into the hill at Bouze-lès-Beaune. That put him midway between the sherry country of Andalusia and the Highlands. The tunnel runs about 150 metres, with natural springs, and the damp keeps the ageing slow.
He held that a barrel's past decides up to ninety percent of the whisky. So he hunted old Pedro Ximénez, Palomino and vin jaune casks. The Unique is a single grain Scotch matured that way in ex-sherry wood. It is bottled at 44 percent without chill filtering, colouring or peat. Michel died in 2013. His wife Marthe, daughter Alexandra and son-in-law Cyril Deschamps carry it on with apprentice Jean-Arnaud Frantzen.
Drink it neat.
Structure
Picked on Stef's structure profile.
