Michel Couvreur Overaged Natural Strength (70cl, 52%)

Michel Couvreur Overaged Natural Strength is a malt whisky bottled at 52% in a 70cl bottle. It is non-chill-filtered and has no added colour. The distillate is Scottish, but it matures in sherry oak casks in the rock cellars of Bouze-lès-Beaune in Burgundy. Because maturation takes place in France, it cannot be called Scotch whisky. Michel Couvreur was a Belgian wine and spirits merchant who, from the 1970s, put the cask at the centre of his whisky. It is described as having dried fruit, spicy oak, leather and a light note of smoke.