MILLET ARMAGNAC VINTAGE 1981

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Château de Millet

The 1981 from Château de Millet, gold medal at the Concours de Toulouse 2007: exotic woods on the nose, smoothness and length on the palate.

Vintage: 198145 years since the harvest
ABV: 42.0% vol.
Capacity: 70cl

Appellation AOC Armagnac
Region Southwest
Character Expressive - Round

€138.00

(€197.14 / L)

i.e. €197.14 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

Vintage1981

ABV42.0 % vol.

Capacity70 cl

AppellationAOC Armagnac

RegionSouthwest

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MILLET ARMAGNAC VINTAGE 1981

Ageing Vintage 1981, single-harvest eau-de-vie, aged in oak casks at the domaine
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 domaine at Eauze
Awards Gold Medal, Concours de Toulouse 2007

1981, the year of the first TGV service between Paris and Lyon. At Domaine Dèche, the harvest yielded an eau-de-vie that the house describes as complex and refined, with notes of exotic woods on the nose. On the palate, it shows a pleasant smoothness, fine balance and an aromatic intensity that gives it length and character. It was awarded a gold medal at the Concours de Toulouse in 2007. A single vintage, aged in cask at Eauze. For those born in 1981, a 70 cl bottle at 42% vol., presented in a wooden gift box.

Nosecomplex and refined, notes of exotic woods

Palatepleasant smoothness, fine balance

Finisharomatic intensity that brings length and character

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The year 1981

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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.

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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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