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Key facts

Vintage2004
Capacity70 cl
AppellationAOC Armagnac
RegionSouthwest
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BARON DE SIGOGNAC ARMAGNAC VINTAGE 2004

  • Cask Limousin oak
  • Grape varieties Ugni Blanc or Baco
  • Terroir tawny sands
  • Distillation Armagnac-type continuous still

This 2004 vintage from Baron de Sigognac comes from Castelnau d'Auzan, in Bas-Armagnac, on land of tawny sands. Made from Ugni Blanc or Baco, distilled in an Armagnac-type continuous still, it was aged in Limousin oak casks. Candied fruit, prunes, nutmeg and fine oak make up a soft, complex profile. It is a bottle well suited to the 22nd birthday of someone born in 2004, or to mark a wedding, a birthday, a fine gift. It comes in 70 cl, with its Baron de Sigognac wooden case.

Colourlovely bright colour with golden highlights
Nosegreat finesse, great aromatic complexity, candied fruit and prunes, then nutmeg and straw
Palategreat softness, finely integrated oak
Finishlong, prunes and candied fruit
the house

Baron de Sigognac

  • Location Château de Bordeneuve, near Eauze (Gers)
  • Appellation Bas-Armagnac
  • Grape varieties Ugni Blanc and Baco (variable blends: 100% Ugni Blanc, 80/20 or 50/50 depending on the cuvée)
  • Distillation Traditional armagnacais still (short column), continuous distillation, almost a century old, producing approximately 50 to 60 casks per year

Baron de Sigognac is produced at Château de Bordeneuve, on the sandy-tawny soils around Eauze, the capital of Bas-Armagnac, by the Guasch family, who have been established in Gascony since the twelfth century. Continuous distillation has been practised here since 1974, using a traditional armagnacais still nearly a century old,…

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Cellar notes

Appellation
AOC Armagnac
Size
70 cl
Department
Gers
Vintage
2004
Region
Southwest
Type
Armagnac
Reference
SIGOGNAC_2004

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