{"id":4745,"date":"2016-06-02T11:59:26","date_gmt":"2016-06-02T10:59:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thewhiskylady.net\/?p=4745"},"modified":"2016-06-02T11:59:26","modified_gmt":"2016-06-02T10:59:26","slug":"french-whisky-black-mountain-experience-sea-maturation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thewhiskylady.net\/french-whisky-black-mountain-experience-sea-maturation\/","title":{"rendered":"French Whisky Black Mountain to experience sea maturation"},"content":{"rendered":"

French whisky Black Mountain<\/a> to partner with sail transport company TOWT<\/a>\u00a0 (TransOceanic Wind Transport) for a one-of-a-kind sea maturation experience.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Departing from the banks of Bordeaux right a month ago (May 2) on board of an old tuna seiner called \u00ab\u00a0La N\u00e9buleuse\u00a0\u00bb and sailing from Northern Brittany to Bordeaux, the Black Mountain<\/a> N\u00b02 cask will then be transshipped in Dourdenez on the magnificient \u00ab Grayhound \u00bb, an English vessel engaging in \u00ab\u00a0cabotage\u00a0\u00bb between France, southern England and Scilly islands. All in all, the cask is meant to spend at least 6 months out at sea, navigating through winds and tides\u00a0: an exceptional adventure which should come to an end this fall.<\/p>\n

The main goal of this whole operation is obviously to experiment sea maturation\u00a0: the slow moves of the boat making the whisky gently swirling in the cask while temperature variations allow the wood to expand and contract\u2026 Not to mention the sea spray which should also have an important impact on the whisky. 280 litres of spirit are then currently travelling at sea \u2013 that\u2019s about as much whisky that should be bottled for a future VERY limited release\u00a0!<\/p>\n

If C\u00e9dric Leprette, co-founder of Black Mountain<\/a>, chose to engage in this adventure, that\u2019s also a matter of personal belief\u00a0: \u00ab\u00a0I am extremely concerned about the environment, and so are my associates, I also like this conqueror, adventurous, almost chevalric spirit\u00a0!\u00a0I find all of these aspects with TOWT<\/a>\u00a0: reviving sailing merchant navy in 2015 and introducing the initiative as a pioneering concept, this is simply awesome and jubilant\u00a0\u00bb. <\/em><\/p>\n

C\u00e9dric also talks about a \u00ab\u00a0kind of return to the roots of whisky\u00a0: it was actually following transportation of the spirit in barrels within sailing boats towards the colonies that British have discovered the positive impact of prolonged wood maturation on whisky.\u00a0\u00bb<\/em><\/p>\n

Probably the first of a series of future partnerships with the young TOWT<\/a>, whose mission is to revive the sailing merchant navy, the whole team at Black Mountain is very much looking forward to assessing the results of this uncommon experience.<\/p>\n

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French whisky Black Mountain to partner with sail transport company TOWT\u00a0 (TransOceanic Wind Transport) for a one-of-a-kind sea maturation experience. Departing from the banks of Bordeaux right a month ago (May 2) on board of an old tuna seiner called \u00ab\u00a0La N\u00e9buleuse\u00a0\u00bb and sailing from Northern Brittany to Bordeaux, the Black Mountain N\u00b02 cask will then be transshipped in Dourdenez on the magnificient \u00ab Grayhound …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4754,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[356,434],"tags":[686,681,687,24,685,682,683,290,684],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewhiskylady.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4745"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewhiskylady.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewhiskylady.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewhiskylady.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewhiskylady.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4745"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thewhiskylady.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4745\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4755,"href":"https:\/\/thewhiskylady.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4745\/revisions\/4755"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewhiskylady.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewhiskylady.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewhiskylady.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewhiskylady.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}