MILLET ARMAGNAC VINTAGE 1976 POT GASCON 250 cl

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

Château de Millet

The dry summer of 1976 in a traditional vessel: the 250 cl pot gascon from Château de Millet, awarded 94/100 by Gilbert & Gaillard.

Vintage: 197650 years since the harvest
ABV: 42.0% vol.
Capacity: 250cl

Appellation AOC Armagnac
Region Southwest
Character Woody - Warm - Complex - Expressive - Rounded

€645.00

(€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.

Capacity250 cl

AppellationAOC Armagnac

RegionSouthwest

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MILLET ARMAGNAC VINTAGE 1976 POT GASCON 250 cl

Ageing Vintage 1976, eau-de-vie from a single harvest, 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
Awards Gilbert & Gaillard 2008, 94/100; Silver Medal, Concours National des Caves Particulières 2007

The pot gascon is the region's historic format, round and generous, as much a display piece as a serving bottle. This one holds the sole 1976 harvest from the estate, a year of severe drought across France. Its nose of prunes, figs and assorted spices, followed by a richly spiced finish, earned it 94/100 in the Gilbert & Gaillard 2008 guide. The wax seal protects the eau-de-vie, and the bottling date on the label tells its true age. The 250 cl pot gascon is bottled at 42% vol., wooden gift box included.

Nosesuperb, very open and expressive: prunes, figs and assorted spices

Palatea model of harmony and character, the aromas from the nose deepen and develop

Finisha spice-laden finish of 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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