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MILLET ARMAGNAC VINTAGE 2001 POT GASCON 250 cl
- Ageing Vintage 2001, 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
Rotund and generous, the pot gascon of 250 cl is the most traditional way to keep a vintage. This one carries the 2001 harvest from Château de Millet, produced exclusively from the estate's own wines and aged in 400-litre oak casks. The label shows the bottling date, which attests to the time spent under wood. A collector's gift, or the bottle for a family celebration that lasts several days. The pot is bottled at 42% vol. and comes in a wooden gift box.
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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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