Private: Michel Couvreur
Michel Couvreur whiskies are distilled in Scotland, then slowly matured in a unique collection of ancient and special casks, ranging from century-old Pedro Ximenez sherry barrels to Vin Jaune barrels from the Jura. Each cask is treated individually and develops for decades before cellar master Jean-Arnaud Frantzen decides when it is ready for blending and bottling.
“Michel Couvreur had a very personal and truly revolutionary vision of what whisky should be: more than terroir, more than the distiller’s touch. It was the maturing in oak casks that truly helped the grain spirit become whisky. From 1978 on, having settled in the French region of Burgundy, he decided to make it his life’s work and to dedicate his research to a process that he once compared to cross-fertilizat...
