this bottle
MILLET ARMAGNAC VINTAGE 2004
- Ageing Vintage 2004, single-harvest eau-de-vie, aged in oak casks at the estate
- Cask French oak casks, aged in the Château de Millet chai until bottling
- Grape varieties Baco and Ugni Blanc, Bas-Armagnac grape varieties grown on the estate's sandy soils at Eauze
The 2004 from the Dèche estate is an eau-de-vie from a single harvest, drawn from the Baco and Ugni Blanc vines grown at Eauze. After distillation, carried out on the property, it matured in 400-litre oak casks in the family chai. A dated label and a wax seal guarantee its age and condition. For a child born in 2004, a christening or a wedding: 70 cl, 42% vol., presented in a wooden gift box.
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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