MILLET ARMAGNAC VINTAGE 1999

Name: MILLET ARMAGNAC VINTAGE 1999
Brand: Château de Millet
SKU: MILLET_ARMAGNAC_1999
Price: 78.00 EUR
Availability: InStock

Armagnac 1999 - Château de Millet

Château de Millet

The 1999 harvest from Château de Millet, the year of the great solar eclipse of August, for a birth or a wedding in 1999.

Vintage: 199927 years since the harvest
ABV: 42.0% vol.
Capacity: 70cl

Appellation AOC Armagnac
Region Southwest
Character Expressive - Round

€78.00

(€111.43 / L)

i.e. €111.43 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

Vintage1999

ABV42.0 % vol.

Capacity70 cl

AppellationAOC Armagnac

RegionSouthwest

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MILLET ARMAGNAC VINTAGE 1999

Ageing Vintage 1999, 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, the Bas-Armagnac grape varieties grown on the estate's golden sands at Eauze

On 11 August 1999, a total solar eclipse passed over northern France. The Dèche family's harvest followed shortly after, on the golden sands of Eauze. The Baco and Ugni Blanc grapes were vinified and distilled on the estate; the eau-de-vie then rested in cask, never blended with another year, until the date shown on the label. A fitting gift for anyone born or married in 1999: a 70 cl bottle sealed in wax, bottled at 42% vol., presented in a wooden gift box.

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The year 1999

Vintage good

1999 was the final year of the millennium, marked by the release of the film Matrix and the introduction of the euro. In Gascony, the vines yielded a fruity and expressive vintage. After more than a quarter of a century of ageing in Gascon oak casks, these eaux-de-vie offer an approachable, youthful profile, carried by notes of fresh fruit and emerging vanilla.

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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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