MILLET ARMAGNAC VINTAGE 2000

Médaille d'orSpirits Selection Bruxelles
Médaille d'orConcours Général Agricole
91/100Gilbert & Gaillard

Château de Millet

The 2000 vintage from Millet, gold medal in Paris in 2022 and in Brussels in 2024: fruit, vanilla and a spiced finish.

Vintage: 200026 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

Vintage2000

ABV42.0 % vol.

Capacity70 cl

AppellationAOC Armagnac

RegionSouthwest

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MILLET ARMAGNAC VINTAGE 2000

Ageing Vintage 2000, 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 estate's sandy soils at Eauze
Awards Gilbert & Gaillard 91/100; Gold Medal Concours Général Agricole Paris 2022; Gold Spirits Selection Brussels 2024

For those born in the year 2000, here is an eau-de-vie from the harvest that opened the millennium. The estate gives it a beautiful orange robe with mahogany highlights, a frank nose blending fruit and vanilla, a palate in the same vein, underpinned by a lovely freshness, and a spiced, powerful and harmonious finish. Gilbert & Gaillard scored it 91/100; it was awarded gold at the Concours Général Agricole de Paris 2022 and at the Concours mondial de Bruxelles, Spirits Selection 2024. Its 70 cl, at 42% vol., come presented in a wooden gift box.

ColourOrange, mahogany highlights

NoseFrank, blending fruity and vanilla aromas

PalateIn the same vein, balanced by a lovely freshness

FinishSpiced, powerful and harmonious

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The year 2000

Vintage good

2000 was the first vintage of the twenty-first century, a year marked by France's victory at Euro 2000. In Gascony, the vines yielded a fruity and expressive vintage. Aged for a quarter of a century in Gascon oak casks, these eaux-de-vie now present a youthful, lively profile, with fresh fruit, floral notes and a touch of 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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