the bottle

Key facts

Vintage2005
ABV49.2 % vol.
Capacity70 cl
AppellationAOC Armagnac
RegionSouthwest
this bottle

CHÂTEAU DE BORDENEUVE ARMAGNAC VINTAGE 2005 BRUT DE FÛT

  • Ageing until the bottling date shown on the back label
  • Cask oak
  • Grape varieties 100% Ugni Blanc
  • Terroir Bas-Armagnac, sables fauves
  • Distillation traditional armagnacais still, single pass, at 56%

The 2005 leans towards fresh fruit. Its colour is pale yellow with golden highlights, and the nose, refined and elegant, offers plum and peach with a delicate hint of vanilla. The palate is round, smooth and well balanced, and the long finish returns to prune with a pleasing oakiness. This Ugni Blanc harvest from the sables fauves was distilled in a single pass, then bottled without reduction at 49.2% vol. The wooden gift box makes it a fine present.

Colourbeautiful pale yellow colour with golden highlights
Noserefined and elegant, aromas of fresh fruit, plum and peach, delicately vanilla-tinged
Palatebeautifully round on the palate, smooth and well balanced
Finishlong and beautiful finish of prune with a pleasing oakiness

Serve with best enjoyed as a digestif

the vintage

The year 2005

Vintage medium

2005 will be remembered for the legendary Champions League final in Istanbul and the launch of YouTube. In Gascony, the vines yielded a fresh and expressive vintage. After two decades of ageing in Gascon oak casks, these eaux-de-vie display a youthful, fruit-forward profile, with notes of flowers and fresh fruit, and are still very much evolving.

the house

Château de Bordeneuve

  • Location Castelnau-d'Auzan-Labarrère, Gers
  • Appellation Bas-Armagnac
  • Grape varieties Ugni Blanc (approximately 75%) and Baco (approximately 25%)
  • Distillation Continuous Armagnac column still, nearly a century old; distillation on lees, spirit leaving the still at between 55 and 58% vol.

In the heart of Bas-Armagnac, in the commune of Castelnau-d'Auzan-Labarrère, Château de Bordeneuve belongs to the Guasch family, rooted in Gascony since the twelfth century and owners of the estate since 1974. On their own Ugni Blanc and Baco vines, the house still distils using a near-century-old Armagnac column still, run day…

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The record

Cellar notes

Appellation
AOC Armagnac
Characteristic(s)
Elegant - Fruity - Smooth - Round
Size
70 cl
Department
Gers
Vintage
2005
Region
Southwest
ALCOHOL RATE
49.2 °
Type
Armagnac
Reference
BORDENEUVE_2005
ElegantFruitySmoothRound

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