Fanny Fougerat is a fourth-generation distiller. Her family had been selling to the big houses that dominate Cognac; she is the first in her family to bottle her own cognac, and is currently the only woman doing so. Her Cognac is never blended; every bottle from every release is labelled with barrel number and bottle number. For her Iris Poivré XO Cognac, 15% of the batch is aged one year in new oak, the rest is aged in neutral oak for 12 years. An unconventional bottling, this shows very few oak aromas; it's precise, pure, and floral.