Tasting Notes by Brand: Michel Couvreur

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Michel Couvreur 2015 Fino Cask #323 56% cask sample

Nose: Kumquat marmalade, unfiltered sake in a cedar box.

Palate: In french sulfur is “soufre“ which if you ask me is probably an early conjugation / bastardization of “souffrir”, or to suffer. If you can ride out the front of the palate, the finish is quite lovely, turns fruity and jammy.

Rating: 2 (Shane) 3 (Ryan) / 10 – Ryan doesn’t even mind toejam, and yet look at this score. Unfortunately, it is what it is.

Rating 5/ 10
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Michel Couvreur 2015 / 2023 Manzanilla Butt #806 51% cask sample

Nose: Fruit bomb. Ripe cantaloupe melon, tons of honey, green olives stuffed with lemon pulp, fresh cut green wood and alfalfa, a young spirit ethanal note. A quite lovely nose.

Palate: A very dry citrus note, lemon blossom honey in white tea, Astringency is the connecting note, which makes it a hint hard to love, on the finish there is a yeasty note. This definitely benefits from a bigger mouthful.

Rating: 5 (Shane) 4 (Ryan) / 10 – I can’t tell if this is simply young and that is the astringent ethanol note, or if it’s the effect of the manzanilla. Super promising, I love parts of it, Ryan is less impressed.

Rating 5/ 10
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Michel Couvreur 2010 / 2023 Colheita Port Pipe #701 52% cask sample

Nose: Overripe figs, dirty old bandaid, super sweet dark grapes, fig newton, welch’s grape jam on rye, musty

Palate: Jolly rancher grape candy, and then ouch ouch ouch. Sour woody yuck. Sucking on aspirin. I know I should write more but I ain’t got it in me.

Rating: 5 (Ryan) 4 (Shane) / 10 – the first two thirds of the sip is great but then that finish… so close but nope.