SECALE 2013 Version Française Cerealis

Since 2020, Version Française, a range dedicated to exceptional French spirits, has been meeting producers across the country and showcasing their expertise. In 2023, Version Française inaugurates a new cycle dedicated to the various stages of whisky production. Called Cerealis, the first episode of this cycle highlights the emblematic cereals of whisky production around the world, with four versions made from corn, rye, barley and wheat. Distilled between 2013 and 2019 in an Armagnac still, the four small batches revisit the categories of bourbon, rye, single malt and grain whisky. Created from a combination of 51% rye and 49% malted barley, and a fermentation lasting more than ten days, this fourth expression in the Cerealis collection, Secale, could be included in the same category as the great pre-Prohibition American whiskeys. Except that here, instead of classic American oak barrels, new oak barrels from Jura have been used for its maturation. The flavour and aroma palette is filled with incredibly frank spicy and herbaceous sequences.