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MILLET ARMAGNAC VINTAGE 1980 MAGNUM 150 Cl
- Ageing 1980 vintage, 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 in Eauze
A magnum is the choice for celebrations where a crowd is expected. This one is filled with the 1980 harvest from Château de Millet, a family estate in Eauze where the Dèche family grow, vinify and distil themselves. The eau-de-vie then rested in 400-litre oak casks until bottling, sealed in wax. A generous format for friends born in the same year, or for a couple married in 1980. Bottled at 42% vol., this magnum comes presented in a wooden gift box.
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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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