Le Nez Dans Le Verre : Les whiskies Michel COUVREUR
Le Nez dans le Verre vous emmène à la découverte des Whiskies Michel Couvreur.
À l'origine producteur-négociant de vin de Bourgogne de 1951 à 1978, Michel Couvreur acquiert les caves du Molet à Bouze-lès-Beaune en 1956, puis s'établit en Écosse en 1964, quelques années après avoir transféré le siège de sa société en Angleterre. Il étudie les procédés de fabrication de whisky et en 1971 ferme les bureaux de Londres et se concentre désormais sur la vente de vins sur le marché canadien. En 1978, il enregistre sa société comme distillerie de whisky en Écosse et commence la distillation en 1986 à Edradour. La société Michel Couvreur est incorporée en 1990 à Old Meldrum, dans l'Aberdeenshire.
Il s'est spécialisé dans les whiskies insolites produits selon des méthodes artisanales, comme le Bere Barley, un whisky tenant son nom d'une variété d'orge à faible rendement cultivé aux Orcades. Contrairement à nombre d'embouteilleurs indépendants, Michel Couvreur ne précise jamais sur les étiquettes de ses bouteilles la distillerie où chaque whisky est produit. Ceux qui sont réduits le sont avec de l'eau de source ou de lac d'Écosse importée en citernes.
Cet embouteilleur considère que « 90 % de la qualité d'un whisky provient du fût, et seulement 10 % du procédé de distillation », et voit l'utilisation de fûts de bourbon, popularisée depuis les années 70 à la place de fûts de xérès, plus rares et plus coûteux, comme une « grande tragédie ».
Il est décédé le 17 août 2013 à l'âge de 85 ans.
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Le Nez Dans le Verre, ce sont des rencontres, des dégustations et des découvertes autour des vins, des whiskies, des bières, des rhums et des champagnes.
L'émission est produite par DoluFilms et présentée par Laurent MERCIER (caviste) et Ludovic SARRAZIN (journaliste).
Laurent MERCIER, c'est l'expert de l'émission. Il est caviste à Inter Caves à Pont Saint Martin (44) et grâce à son expérience et son goût pour les bonnes choses, le Nez Dans Le Verre vous fait découvrir les vins des Pays de La Loire mais pas que. Les whiskies, les rhums, les bières sont aussi au programme de cette émission.
Si vous souhaitez rencontrer Laurent :
Laurent MERCIER caviste Inter Caves
95, rue de Nantes
44860 Pont St Martin
09.83.88.65.30
pontsaintmartin.intercaves.fr
Heures d'ouverture :
Mardi au vendredi 10h à 19h30.
Samedi 9h30 à 19h30.
Dimanche 10h à 12h30.
Huddle with the Faculty: Field to Front: Nittany Lions at War, 1917-1919 (November 11, 2017)
As the United States observes the centennial of its participation in the First World War, Field to Front chronicles the role played by Penn State student-athletes in the conflict. During the course of the war, over 200 former lettermen entered the military. Representative of the larger student body, these individuals could be found in the trenches of the Western Front, in the skies above, on the waves, and in supporting roles at home and abroad. Field to Front shares the stories of Nittany Lions such as Bob Higgins and Levi Lamb as they left civilian life to making an impact in the global struggle.
Ken Hickman has been the director of the Penn State All-Sports Museum since 2006. A 1998 graduate of Penn State (History & Political Science), he holds advanced degrees in history and library science from the University of Delaware and Drexel University. Prior to returning to Penn State, he served as the curator and director of development for the USS Constellation Museum (Baltimore, MD) and as the curator of the American Merchant Marine Museum (Kings Point, NY). Having been featured on the History Channel, he has also written extensively for and has overseen all military history content for About.com/ThoughtCo.com since 2007.
Huddle with the Faculty series is presented by the Penn State Alumni Association. The series offers presentations by Penn State’s star educators every home football Saturday morning at The Nittany Lion Inn.
History of France | Wikipedia audio article
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The first written records for the history of France appeared in the Iron Age. What is now France made up the bulk of the region known to the Romans as Gaul. Roman writers noted the presence of three main ethno-linguistic groups in the area: the Gauls, the Aquitani, and the Belgae. The Gauls, the largest and best attested group, were Celtic people speaking what is known as the Gaulish language.
Over the course of the 1st millennium BC the Greeks, Romans and Carthaginians established colonies on the Mediterranean coast and the offshore islands. The Roman Republic annexed southern Gaul as the province of Gallia Narbonensis in the late 2nd century BC, and Roman forces under Julius Caesar conquered the rest of Gaul in the Gallic Wars of 58–51 BC. Afterwards a Gallo-Roman culture emerged and Gaul was increasingly integrated into the Roman Empire.
In the later stages of the Roman Empire, Gaul was subject to barbarian raids and migration, most importantly by the Germanic Franks. The Frankish king Clovis I united most of Gaul under his rule in the late 5th century, setting the stage for Frankish dominance in the region for hundreds of years. Frankish power reached its fullest extent under Charlemagne. The medieval Kingdom of France emerged from the western part of Charlemagne's Carolingian Empire, known as West Francia, and achieved increasing prominence under the rule of the House of Capet, founded by Hugh Capet in 987.
A succession crisis following the death of the last direct Capetian monarch in 1328 led to the series of conflicts known as the Hundred Years' War between the House of Valois and the House of Plantagenet. The war formally began in 1337 following Philip VI's attempt to seize the Duchy of Aquitaine from its hereditary holder, Edward III of England, the Plantagenet claimant to the French throne. Despite early Plantagenet victories, including the capture and ransom of John II of France, fortunes turned in favor of the Valois later in the war. Among the notable figures of the war was Joan of Arc, a French peasant girl who led French forces against the English, establishing herself as a national heroine. The war ended with a Valois victory in 1453.
Victory in the Hundred Years' War had the effect of strengthening French nationalism and vastly increasing the power and reach of the French monarchy. During the period known as the Ancien Régime, France transformed into a centralized absolute monarchy. During the next centuries, France experienced the Renaissance and the Protestant Reformation. At the height of the French Wars of Religion, France became embroiled in another succession crisis, as the last Valois king, Henry III, fought against rival factions the House of Bourbon and the House of Guise. Henry, King of Navarre, scion of the Bourbon family, would be victorious in the conflict and establish the French Bourbon dynasty. A burgeoning worldwide colonial empire was established in the 16th century. French political power reached a zenith under the rule of Louis XIV, The Sun King, builder of Versailles Palace.
In the late 18th century the monarchy and associated institutions were overthrown in the French Revolution. The country was governed for a period as a Republic, until the French Empire was declared by Napoleon Bonaparte. Following Napoleon's defeat in the Napoleonic Wars, France went through several further regime changes, being ruled as a monarchy, then briefly as a Second Republic, and then as a Second Empire, until a more lasting French Third Republic was established in 1870.
France was one of the Triple Entente powers in World War I, fighting alongside the United Kingdom, Russia, Italy, Japan, the United States and smaller allies against Germany and the Central Powers.
France was one of the Allied Powers in World War II, but was conquered by Nazi Germany in 1940. The Third Republic was dismantled, and most of the country was controlled di ...