the bottle
1989 vintage, bottled at cask strength, meaning at the natural degree at which the spirit left the oak, without reduction and without cold filtration. Bottles are individually numbered.
Serve with best enjoyed as a digestif
1989 will be remembered as the year that changed the world, with the fall of the Berlin Wall on 9 November after twenty-eight years of division. In Gascony, the vines yielded a vintage of fine freshness. Aged for nearly four decades in Gascon oak casks, these eaux-de-vie retain a lovely vitality, with notes of candied fruit, vanilla and gentle spice.
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…
All Château de Laubade Armagnacs →The record
Expressive - Round
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The year on the label
Authentic vintages, from 1888 to the present day.
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