MILLET ARMAGNAC VINTAGE 1976 MAGNUM 150 Cl

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

Château de Millet

The 1976 harvest from Millet in a 150 cl magnum: a wonderfully expressive eau-de-vie, made to be shared around a table of friends.

Vintage: 197650 years since the harvest
ABV: 42.0% vol.
Capacity: 150cl

Appellation AOC Armagnac
Region Southwest
Character Expressive - Round

€387.00

(€258.00 / L)

i.e. €258.00 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.

Capacity150 cl

AppellationAOC Armagnac

RegionSouthwest

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MILLET ARMAGNAC VINTAGE 1976 MAGNUM 150 Cl

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 estate's sandy soils at Eauze
Awards Gilbert & Gaillard 2008, 94/100; Silver Medal, Concours National des Caves Particulières 2007

This magnum holds 150 cl of the 1976 from the Dèche family, distilled at Eauze and aged in cask until bottling. It is the natural choice when a celebration brings a large gathering together: a class reunion, or cousins born that same year catching up after years apart. The house describes prunes and figs on the nose, a very well-integrated palate where the aromas broaden and deepen, and a long, spiced finish. Gilbert & Gaillard awarded it 94/100. The magnum, sealed in wax, is bottled at 42% vol. and comes presented in a wooden gift box.

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

Palatea benchmark for integration and expression, the aromas from the nose deepen and expand on the palate

Finisha feast of spices, with a remarkably long finish

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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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