Hennessy VSOP Chinese New Year 2020 by Zhang Huan

Hennessy VSOP Chinese New Year 2020 by Zhang HuanThe 2020 Chinese New Year is particularly special because it marks the start of a new cycle with the Year of the Rat. In that spirit, the Maison Hennessy for the first time commissioned a monumental work of art, called Eaux de vie, from Zhang Huan in addition to a design for its special Chinese New Year editions of the Hennessy collection. Based on a selection of firmly structured eaux de vie, aged largely in partially used barrels in order to take on

and honey at the forefront

built in 1909

velvety tannins – as approachable in youth as in maturity

sensuous finish

Twenty years in American Oak will make your average spirit a bit mellow

baking spices and a soft alluring medium bodied mouth feel

cinnamon and prune

There he learned how the grapes had to be picked by moonlight at -10˚C to produce the intensely sweet Icewine

older vintages are ever-so-lightly-peated and have rested in ex-bourbon casks which lend lovely characteristics to the whisky’s development

Then we aged Devil’s Share in virgin

These prefered qualities come from selecting young

dry and spicy