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Les Ocres Whisky

Category: French Whisky

Date Tasted: 5/23/2024

Country: France

Alcohol: 46%

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93 Points

Gold Medal

Exceptional

$65

Coperies
Les Ocres Whisky

Category: French Whisky

Date Tasted: 5/23/2024

Country: France

Alcohol: 46%

Golden amber color. Aromas and flavors of toasted multigrain bread, apricot preserves, toffee and dark chocolate, and spiced plum pudding with a round, lively, dry medium-to-full body and a tingling, appealing, medium-long finish with impressions of honeyed dried apricot, spiced bread pudding with plum sauce, caramel and vanilla, and baking spices and mango tea. Rich and rounded texture with good grain, nice barrel spice, and a pervasive fruit character of both stone fruit and red fruit from nose to finish.

Tasting Info

	Style:	Rich & Full
	Aroma:	toasted multigrain bread, apricot preserves, toffee and dark chocolate, and spiced plum pudding
	Flavor:	Same as aromas with impressions of honeyed dried apricot, spiced bread pudding with plum sauce, caramel and vanilla, and baking spices and mango tea
	Smoothness:	Tingling
	Finish:	Long
	Enjoy:	neat, on the rocks and with cigars
	Bottom Line:	Rich and rounded texture with good grain, nice barrel spice, and a pervasive fruit character of both stone fruit and red fruit from nose to finish.

The Producer

Distillerie Merlet & Fils

40, Rue de Chevessac

St. Sauvant, 17610

France

33 -546 91 50 36

www.merlet.fr

Their Portfolio

93 •	Coperies Les Ocres Whisky 46% (France) $65.00.
94 •	Merlet Crème De Fraise Liqueur 18% (France) $28.00.
96 •	Merlet Crème De Poire Liqueur 18% (France) $28.00.
91 •	Merlet Sœurs Cerises Liqueur 24% (France) $31.00.
92 •	Merlet VSOP Cognac 40% (France) $51.00.

French Whisky

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Serve in a Glencairn Ganadian Whisky Glass

About

French Whisky

The French drink more Scotch whisky than anyone else and today, there are a few distilleries, primarily in Brittany, that craft a different style of whiskey. These are not peaty examples with notes of iodine as in Scotland, but rather elegant styles with notes of apricot, toffee and orange marmalade with a gentle spicy finish. The best are quite elegant and stylish and would be fine sipped in a small snifter or mixed in refined cocktails.