the bottle

Key facts

Vintage2000

ABV42.0 % vol.

Capacity250 cl

AppellationAOC Armagnac

RegionSouthwest

this bottle

MILLET ARMAGNAC VINTAGE 2000 POT GASCON 250 cl

• Ageing Vintage 2000, eau-de-vie from a single harvest, 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
• Awards Gilbert & Gaillard 91/100; Gold Medal Concours Général Agricole Paris 2022; Gold Spirits Selection Brussels 2024

This 250 cl pot gascon contains the 2000 vintage from the Dèche family, with a fruity and vanilla nose, a fresh palate and a spiced finish. Awarded gold at the Concours Général Agricole in Paris in 2022 and at the Spirits Selection of the Concours mondial de Bruxelles in 2024, it has also received 91/100 from the Gilbert & Gaillard guide. The large round decanter can be kept as a collector's piece or opened for a celebration bringing several families together. Sealed under wax, the pot is bottled at 42% vol. and presented in a wooden gift box.

ColourAmber with mahogany highlights

NoseStraightforward, combining fruity and vanilla aromas

PalateOn the same register, balanced by a pleasing freshness

FinishSpiced, powerful and harmonious

same vintage

This vintage is also available in

• 70 cl €78.00
• 150 cl €161.00

the vintage

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.

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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The record

Cellar notes

Appellation

AOC Armagnac

Characteristic(s)

Woody - Warm - Complex - Expressive - Rounded

Size

250 cl

Department

Gers

Vintage

2000

Region

Southwest

ALCOHOL RATE

42.0 °

Type

Armagnac

Reference

MILLET_ARMAGNAC_2000_250CL

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