PELLEHAUT ARMAGNAC VINTAGE 1989 BRUT DE FÛT

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Domaine de Pellehaut

Toasted wood, hazelnut and stone fruit, then vanilla and yellow peach: the 1989 from Pellehaut, gold medal at the Concours National des Eaux-de-Vie 2012.

Vintage: 198937 years since the harvest
ABV: 48.6% vol.
Capacity: 70cl

Appellation AOC Armagnac
Region Southwest
Character Nose: Toasted wood and toasted hazelnut, complemented by stone-fruit aromas.

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the bottle

Key facts

Vintage1989

ABV48.6 % vol.

Capacity70 cl

AppellationAOC Armagnac

RegionSouthwest

this bottle

PELLEHAUT ARMAGNAC VINTAGE 1989 BRUT DE FÛT

Cask 400-litre casks, large-grain oak from the estate and from Limousin
Grape varieties Ugni Blanc
Awards Gold Medal at the Concours National des Eaux-de-Vie 2012

In 2012, the jury of the Concours National des Eaux-de-Vie d'Armagnac awarded a gold medal to this 1989 vintage. The estate's tasting notes describe a deep orange colour with brown highlights, a nose of toasted wood and roasted hazelnut rounded out by stone fruit, then a full and generous palate of vanilla, ripe plum and yellow peach. The magazine Vert de Vin picks out candied orange peel, crystallised mandarin and a silky texture. Distilled from Ugni Blanc, it is presented at 48.6% vol., cask strength.

ColourDeep orange, amber hue with brown highlights

NoseToasted wood and roasted hazelnut, complemented by stone fruit aromas

PalateFull and generous, with vanilla, ripe plum and yellow peach

Serve with best enjoyed as a digestif

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

Domaine de Pellehaut

Location Montréal-du-Gers, Gers
Appellation Ténarèze
Grape varieties Ugni Blanc and Folle Blanche
Distillation Continuous-flow Armagnac still, wood-fired

Château de Pellehaut stands in Montréal-du-Gers, on the hillsides of the Ténarèze, where clay-limestone soils take over from the sands of the Bas-Armagnac. The Béraut family has been rooted here for four centuries; it was Gaston Béraut who revived distillation in the 1950s before passing the estate to his sons Martin and Mathie…

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The record

Cellar notes

Appellation: AOC Armagnac
Characteristic(s): Nose: Toasted wood and toasted hazelnut, complemented by stone-fruit aromas.
Size: 70 cl
Department: Gers
Vintage: 1989
Region: Southwest
ALCOHOL RATE: 48.6 °
Type: Armagnac
Grape variety: 100% Ugni-Blanc
Reference: PELLEHAUT_ARMAGNAC_1989