LAUBADE ARMAGNAC VINTAGE 1981

Name: LAUBADE ARMAGNAC VINTAGE 1981
Brand: Château de Laubade
SKU: LAUBADE_1981
Price: 132.00 EUR
Availability: InStock

Armagnac 1981 - Château de Laubade

Château de Laubade

Highly vanilla-forward, rounded, with a hint of rancio: the 1981 that the house presented as Best Armagnac in San Francisco in 2011.

Vintage: 198145 years since the harvest
ABV: 40.0% vol.
Capacity: 70cl

Appellation AOC Armagnac
Region Southwest
Character Elegant - Balanced - Expressive - Long - Round

€132.00

(€188.57 / L)

i.e. €188.57 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.

the bottle

Key facts

Vintage1981

ABV40.0 % vol.

Capacity70 cl

AppellationAOC Armagnac

RegionSouthwest

this bottle

LAUBADE ARMAGNAC VINTAGE 1981

Cask Gascony pedunculate oak, 420-litre casks
Awards Best Armagnac and Double Gold Medal, San Francisco World Spirits Competition 2011

The estate's Millésime Célébration sheet highlights a rare distinction for this 1981: Best Armagnac and Double Gold Medal at the San Francisco World Spirits Competition 2011. On the palate, the house describes it as balanced and rounded, highly vanilla-forward, with a delicate hint of rancio and a fine aromatic persistence. Like every Millésime Célébration, it comes from one hundred percent of a single harvest, and its bottling date appears on the label. The 70 cl bottle is bottled at 40% vol.: a beautiful gift for those born in 1981.

PalateBalanced and rounded, highly vanilla-forward, with a delicate hint of rancio

FinishFine aromatic persistence on the finish

Serve with best enjoyed as a digestif

the vintage

The year 1981

Vintage grand

1981 will be remembered as the year François Mitterrand was elected President of the Republic, while across the Atlantic the music channel MTV was born. In Gascony, the vines yielded grapes of fine ripeness. These eaux-de-vie, aged for nearly half a century in Gascon oak casks, have reached their full expression, with notes of candied prunes, dark chocolate and gentle spices.

the house

Château de Laubade

Founded in 1870
Location Sorbets, Gers
Appellation Bas-Armagnac
Grape varieties Baco, Ugni Blanc, Folle Blanche, Colombard and Plant de Graisse (six varieties cultivated in total)
Distillation Continuous single-distillation in a column-still alembic built in 1974, variety by variety

Built in 1870 in the commune of Sorbets, in the heart of Bas-Armagnac, Château de Laubade has been run since 1974 by the Lesgourgues family, now in its third generation with Denis and Arnaud Lesgourgues. Across one hundred hectares of unbroken vineyard, six traditional grape varieties, Baco, Ugni Blanc, Folle Blanche, Colombard…

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The record

Cellar notes

Appellation: AOC Armagnac
Characteristic(s): Elegant - Balanced - Expressive - Long - Round
Size: 70 cl
Department: Gers
Vintage: 1981
Region: Southwest
ALCOHOL RATE: 40.0 °
Type: Armagnac
Reference: LAUBADE_1981

ElegantBalancedExpressiveLongRound

How it is made

The Célébration vintages form a unique range of aged Armagnacs, matured in Gascony oak casks for between 15 and 50 years. Each eau-de-vie rests in an antique-style bottle housed in a beautifully crafted, personalised wooden gift box.