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MILLET ARMAGNAC VINTAGE 2004 MAGNUM 150 Cl
- Ageing Vintage 2004, 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, Bas-Armagnac grape varieties grown on the estate's pale sandy soils in Eauze
For a grand family celebration, this magnum holds the 2004 harvest from Château de Millet, the Dèche family property in Eauze, at the heart of Bas-Armagnac. The grapes were grown on the hillsides northwest of the town, where pale sandy soils and sandy-clay terroirs alternate, then distilled on site. The eau-de-vie was aged in oak casks before being bottled under a wax seal. The 150 cl magnum is bottled at 42% vol. and comes presented 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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