MILLET ARMAGNAC VINTAGE 1989 MAGNUM 150 Cl

94/100Gilbert & Gaillard

Château de Millet

A magnum of the 1989 vintage from Millet, round and generous, best opened at dessert alongside a dark chocolate cake.

Vintage: 198937 years since the harvest
ABV: 42.0% vol.
Capacity: 150cl

Appellation AOC Armagnac
Region Southwest
Character Expressive - Round

€201.00

(€134.00 / L)

i.e. €134.00 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

Vintage1989

ABV42.0 % vol.

Capacity150 cl

AppellationAOC Armagnac

RegionSouthwest

this bottle

MILLET ARMAGNAC VINTAGE 1989 MAGNUM 150 Cl

Ageing Vintage 1989, 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
Awards Gilbert & Gaillard 94/100

This 150 cl magnum holds the 1989 from the Dèche family, distilled at Eauze and aged in cask until bottling. For a large dinner party, it is the dessert eau-de-vie: the estate pairs it with dark chocolate, whose intensity it brings into focus. The nose blends dried fruits, tobacco and rancio; the palate is direct and beautifully rounded. Gilbert & Gaillard awarded it 94/100. Sealed in wax, this large-format bottling at 42% vol. comes presented in a wooden gift box.

ColourVery fine amber colour with golden highlights

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

PalateDirect and generous, with a beautifully rounded palate

FinishComplex and fresh, calling for a indulgent pairing

Serve with A dark chocolate dessert, whose powerful aromas it perfectly complements

same vintage

This vintage is also available in

the vintage

The year 1989

Vintage bon

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.

the house

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…

All Château de Millet Armagnacs →

The record