MILLET ARMAGNAC VINTAGE 1976

Médaille d'argentCaves Particulières
94/100Gilbert & Gaillard 2008

Château de Millet

The 1976 from Millet, rated 94/100 by the Gilbert & Gaillard guide: prunes, figs and a festival of spices on the finish.

Vintage: 197650 years since the harvest
ABV: 42.0% vol.
Capacity: 70cl

Appellation AOC Armagnac
Region Southwest
Character Expressive - Round

€183.00

(€261.43 / L)

i.e. €261.43 per litre

Shipped wedged and protected in a reinforced box, tracked delivery.
Gift tube or wooden case depending on the bottle, ready to give.
Authentic vintage straight from the house's cellar.

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Key facts

Vintage1976

ABV42.0 % vol.

Capacity70 cl

AppellationAOC Armagnac

RegionSouthwest

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MILLET ARMAGNAC VINTAGE 1976

Ageing Vintage 1976, single-harvest eau-de-vie, aged in oak casks at the estate
Cask French oak casks, aged in the cellars of Château de Millet until bottling
Grape varieties Baco and Ugni Blanc, Bas-Armagnac grape varieties grown on the sandy soils of the estate, near Eauze
Awards Gilbert & Gaillard 2008, 94/100; Silver Medal, Concours National des Caves Particulières 2007

The summer of 1976 is remembered for its drought and heat. At Château de Millet, the 1976 harvest yielded an eau-de-vie that the Gilbert & Gaillard guide rated 94/100 in its 2008 edition. The estate echoes its description: a superb, fully open nose of prunes, figs and spices, a smooth palate that enriches those aromas, then a festival of spices on the finish. Silver Medal at the Concours national des caves particulières 2007. For a birth or a wedding from 1976, it comes in a 70 cl bottle at 42% vol., presented in a wooden gift box.

Nosesuperb, fully open: prunes, figs and a variety of spices

Palatea model of smoothness and expression, the aromas from the nose deepen and enrich

Finisha festival of spices, with remarkable length

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The 1976 Vintage

1976 saw one of the most remarkable droughts of the century, with the months of April through August exceptionally dry and hot across the whole of France. A summer of such intensity concentrates the sugars and brings an early harvest; in Gascony as elsewhere, this year remains a strong climatic reference point, even though its precise character for Armagnac has not been the subject of any specific documentation found to date.

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Château de Millet

Location Eauze, Gers
Appellation Bas-Armagnac
Grape varieties Baco (the preferred variety for distillation), together with Colombard, Ugni Blanc, Gros Manseng, Chardonnay, Sauvignon, Merlot and Cabernet for the estate's other productions
Distillation A continuously operating armagnacais still, used for the distillation of selected Baco wines, carried out during the first fortnight of December

Set on the sandy-clay hills to the north-west of Eauze, in the heart of Bas-Armagnac, Château de Millet has been tended by the Dèche family for five generations. Across its eighty hectares of the celebrated sables fauves, the estate favours the Baco grape variety, prized for the roundness and softness it expresses on this terro…

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