MILLET ARMAGNAC VINTAGE 1989

94/100Gilbert & Gaillard

Château de Millet

A 1989 vintage awarded 94/100 by Gilbert & Gaillard: tobacco, vanilla and rancio, with a natural affinity for dark chocolate.

Vintage: 198937 years since the harvest
ABV: 42.0% vol.
Capacity: 70cl

Appellation AOC Armagnac
Region Southwest
Character Expressive - Round

€93.00

(€132.86 / L)

i.e. €132.86 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

Vintage1989

ABV42.0 % vol.

Capacity70 cl

AppellationAOC Armagnac

RegionSouthwest

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MILLET ARMAGNAC VINTAGE 1989

Ageing 1989 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, grape varieties of Bas-Armagnac grown on the sandy soils of the estate, in Eauze
Awards Gilbert & Gaillard 94/100

1989, the year of the bicentenary of the French Revolution and the fall of the Berlin Wall. At Château de Millet, it yielded an eau-de-vie awarded 94/100 by the Gilbert & Gaillard guide. Amber colour with golden highlights, a very refined nose of dried fruits, tobacco, vanilla, prune and rancio, a frank and rounded palate, then a fresh and complex finish. The estate recommends serving it alongside a dark chocolate dessert. A single harvest, aged in Eauze. In 70 cl, at 42% vol., presented in a wooden gift box.

Coloura beautiful amber colour with golden highlights

Nosevery refined: dried fruits, tobacco, vanilla, prune, rancio

Palatefrank and generous, with a rounded character

Finishcomplex and fresh, inviting a delicious pairing

Serve with a dark chocolate dessert, whose powerful aromas it beautifully complements

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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.

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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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