MILLET ARMAGNAC VINTAGE 1989 POT GASCON 250 cl

94/100Gilbert & Gaillard

Château de Millet

Tobacco, vanilla, rancio and 94/100 in the Gilbert & Gaillard guide: the 1989 from the Dèche family is also available in a 250 cl pot gascon.

Vintage: 198937 years since the harvest
ABV: 42.0% vol.
Capacity: 250cl

Appellation AOC Armagnac
Region Southwest
Character Woody - Warm - Complex - Expressive - Rounded

€339.00

(€135.60 / L)

i.e. €135.60 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.

Capacity250 cl

AppellationAOC Armagnac

RegionSouthwest

this bottle

MILLET ARMAGNAC VINTAGE 1989 POT GASCON 250 cl

Ageing 1989 vintage, eau-de-vie from a single harvest, aged in oak casks at the estate
Cask French oak casks, aged in the cellar at Château de Millet until bottling
Grape varieties Baco and Ugni Blanc
Awards Gilbert & Gaillard 94/100

The 250 cl pot gascon is the format for collectors and long-lasting celebrations. It holds the 1989 vintage from Château de Millet, awarded 94/100 by Gilbert & Gaillard: golden highlights, a nose of tobacco, vanilla and prune, with a complex and fresh finish. The label states the bottling date, and the wax seal protects the eau-de-vie. A truly fine gift for a couple married in 1989. Bottled at 42% vol., the 250 cl pot gascon comes in its wooden gift box.

Coloura beautiful amber colour with golden highlights

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

Palatefrank and generous, with a rounded character

Finishcomplex and fresh, inviting a fine food pairing

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

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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…

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