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MILLET ARMAGNAC VINTAGE 1986
- Ageing Vintage 1986, 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
The 1986 from the Dèche family is a single-vintage eau-de-vie, born from the estate's Baco and Ugni Blanc vines at Eauze. Like all the armagnacs from Millet, it was harvested, vinified and distilled on site, then aged in oak casks until bottling. The bottling date, noted on the label, tells you how long it spent under wood. A 70 cl bottle sealed in wax, at 42% vol., presented in its 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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