the bottle

Key facts

Vintage1929

ABV40.0 % vol.

Capacity70 cl

AppellationAOC Armagnac

RegionSouthwest

this bottle

BARON DE SIGOGNAC ARMAGNAC VINTAGE 1929

• Cask Limousin oak
• Grape varieties Ugni Blanc or Baco
• Terroir tawny sands
• Distillation continuous still of the Armagnac type

January 1929: Tintin appears for the first time in the pages of Le Petit Vingtième. This eau-de-vie comes from the Gascon harvest of that very same year, the year of the Wall Street crash in the autumn. Ninety-seven years later, it ranks among the rarities of Baron de Sigognac. It is made from Ugni Blanc or Baco grown on tawny sands, distilled in a continuous still of the Armagnac type, then aged in Limousin oak casks. For comic book enthusiasts and for those celebrating a very significant anniversary alike, this is a bottle with a story to tell. It is presented in a 70 cl bottle, in a wooden box, with its bottling date on the back.

Colourhandsome mahogany colour with golden highlights

Nosefine and delicate, with subtle notes of rancio, candied citrus and plums, and a hint of clove and liquorice

Palatesuperb, with a finely judged oak influence and notes of gingerbread and candied citrus

Serve with best enjoyed as a digestif

the vintage

The year 1929

1929 is remembered as the year that shattered the dream of the Roaring Twenties, with Black Thursday on 24 October at Wall Street. That year's Gascon harvest was already in cask before the Great Depression struck the world economy, and these eaux-de-vie are today approaching a century of ageing in Gascon oak.

the house

Baron de Sigognac

• Location Château de Bordeneuve, near Eauze (Gers)
• Appellation Bas-Armagnac
• Grape varieties Ugni Blanc and Baco (variable blends: 100% Ugni Blanc, 80/20 or 50/50 depending on the cuvée)
• Distillation Traditional armagnacais still (short column), continuous distillation, almost a century old, producing approximately 50 to 60 casks per year

Baron de Sigognac is produced at Château de Bordeneuve, on the sandy-tawny soils around Eauze, the capital of Bas-Armagnac, by the Guasch family, who have been established in Gascony since the twelfth century. Continuous distillation has been practised here since 1974, using a traditional armagnacais still nearly a century old,…

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The record

Cellar notes

Appellation

AOC Armagnac

Characteristic(s)

Elegant - Fruity - Rich

Size

70 cl

Department

Gers

Vintage

1929

Region

Southwest

ALCOHOL RATE

40.0 °

Type of Spirit

Extremely rare

Type

Armagnac

Reference

SIGOGNAC_1929

ElegantFruityRich

How it is made

Presented in a beautiful wooden box