{"id":49284,"date":"2022-12-19T16:00:51","date_gmt":"2022-12-19T16:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"\/blog\/post\/new-arrival-of-the-week-cognac-park-borderies-mizunarac\/"},"modified":"2022-12-20T14:01:18","modified_gmt":"2022-12-20T14:01:18","slug":"new-arrival-of-the-week-cognac-park-borderies-mizunarac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.masterofmalt.com\/blog\/post\/new-arrival-of-the-week-cognac-park-borderies-mizunarac\/","title":{"rendered":"New Arrival of the Week: Cognac Park Borderies Mizunara"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is our final New Arrival of the Week of 2022 and we’ve got something a little unusual to say au revoir. Or perhaps that should be sayonara because what we’ve got here is a Cognac<\/a> finished in Japanese oak. It’s\u00a0Cognac Park Borderies Mizunara<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

We tend to think of Cognac as one of the most conservative of spirits. It’s based on the hierarchy of vineyards from Grand Champagne at the top to\u00a0Bons Bois\u00a0and\u00a0Bois Ordinaires\u00a0somewhere near the bottom. Who can forget James Bond turning his nose up at the Cognac served to him by M in Goldfinger<\/em>?\u00a0“I’d say it was a 30-year-old fine and indifferently blended, sir. With an overdose of bon bois.” There’s a hierarchy of age too, going from VS which is aged for a minimum of two years up to XO (10 years) and beyond. The packaging tends to emphasise tradition and continuity. Compare that with whisky which seems to constantly try to chase the youthful consumer, see Ardbeg or the recent fantasy-tinged Diageo Special Releases<\/a>.<\/p>\n