the bottle

Key facts

Vintage2003

ABV42.0 % vol.

Capacity250 cl

AppellationAOC Armagnac

RegionSouthwest

this bottle

MILLET ARMAGNAC VINTAGE 2003 POT GASCON 250 cl

• Ageing Vintage 2003, 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
• Awards Grand Or Talents de l'Armagnac, vintage category 1995 to 2004 (competition, late 2024); Gold Medal Concours Général Agricole Paris 2025; Gold Spirits Selection, Concours mondial de Bruxelles 2024

This 250 cl pot gascon holds the 2003 from Château de Millet, the year of the great heatwave. The eau-de-vie was awarded a Grand Or at the Talents de l'Armagnac, as well as gold at the Concours Général Agricole de Paris 2025 and at the Spirits Selection de Bruxelles 2024. Fine and spiced on the nose, it retains a fresh, fruity and well-balanced palate. A large format for a collection or a family celebration. Wax seal, bottling date on the label, 42 % vol.: a wooden gift box completes the pot.

Nosevery fine, with notes of gentle spices and vanilla

Palatefruity, fresh and well balanced

Finishgentle spices return on the finish

same vintage

This vintage is also available in

• 70 cl €74.00
• 150 cl €152.00

the vintage

The 2003 vintage

Vintage exceptional

2003 will forever be remembered for the hottest summer France had seen in centuries, with a heatwave that pushed temperatures beyond 40°C across the South-West. These extreme conditions gave rise to grapes of a concentration and ripeness rarely achieved in Gascony. An exceptional vintage, whose spirits today display roundness and generosity, somewhere between candied fruit and honey.

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

2003

Region

Southwest

ALCOHOL RATE

42.0 °

Type

Armagnac

Reference

MILLET_ARMAGNAC_2003_250CL

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