the bottle

Key facts

Vintage1956

ABV40.0 % vol.

Capacity70 cl

AppellationAOC Armagnac

RegionSouthwest

this bottle

Marcel Trépout Armagnac Vintage 1956

• Ageing 1956 vintage, harvest year
• Cask French oak cask

For a birth, a wedding or a 1956 birthday, this vintage gives the recipient the exact year of its harvest. It belongs to the collection of the house of Marcel Trépout, whose vintages go far back into the 20th century, and whose Armagnacs trace their origins to Château Notre Dame. Aged in a French oak cask, under the Armagnac appellation, it is offered in a 70 cl bottle at 40% vol. A gift that keeps in the cellar as it is given: a date, a harvest, a simple gesture.

the vintage

The Year 1956

Vintage Difficult

1956 is remembered in viticultural history as a year of severe ordeal: the cold wave of February froze vines down to the wood across a large part of the French vineyard. The yields of the subsequent harvest bore the mark of this damage, and several years were needed before certain plots returned to full production.

the house

Marcel Trépout

• Location Château Notre Dame (Gers)
• Appellation Armagnac

The Marcel Trépout Armagnacs originate at Château Notre Dame. In the 1940s, Marcel Trépout took over the cellars of Maison Daroux, which was based in its buildings, and laid the foundations of a house of great Armagnacs made for long ageing. Its eaux-de-vie age for at least thirty years in oak casks of about 400 litres, each on…

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The record

Cellar notes

Appellation

AOC Armagnac

Size

70 cl

Department

Gers

Vintage

1956

Region

Southwest

ALCOHOL RATE

40.0 °

Type

Armagnac

Reference

MT_1956