53,5°
Distillerie : Warenghem - France
STR Vinho Diaz Cask
Independent Bottling
By Mava Spirit
Limited Edition
Single Cask
Bottled in 2023
Unchillfiltered, Uncoloured
Totally Unpeated
Zero Nine Spirits, a company founded in 2022 by two friends, is releasing here its 2nd whisky, as they mainly make Rum and Armagnac. It's a French whisky, from a renowned distillery, the one that introduced whisky to France in 1983. Indeed, Warenghem is a distillery founded at the end of the 19th century, which distilled the first drops of French whisky. Here we have a single cask from 2015, aged in a Portuguese wine cask, Vinho Diaz. For the occasion, the cask was Shaved, Toasted and Re-charred, in other words sanded, torched and burnt again, in order to enliven its flavours. 202 bottles emerged from this slow process.
Let's Taste It :
Woody and winey notes, figs and prunes, thick caramel. Beautiful forest fullness, pine forest, undergrowth, dry earth and morello cherries, a touch of charcoal, furniture polish. Continues on the palate, with tannins, heather earth, essential oils, damp bark, black fruits, forest berries, a few drops of blackberry, clove and pepper among a variety of spices. The finish is long, powerful, earthy, chestnut trees, walnut and hazelnut, varnished wood, the earth is now almost muddy, chocolate and coffee.
In Short,
It's very interesting, you can feel the influence of the Portuguese wine barrel, which gives it fruit, but the whole is balanced and quite subtle. I found there was a very nice finish that justified the score. As an Unpeated, it's certainly the best French whisky I've ever tasted. I'm still very wary, but I have to admit that the French are not so far behind the Scots. The price is still a bit of a problem, for a 50cl bottle.
Score : 89
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