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MILLET ARMAGNAC VINTAGE 2006 POT GASCON 250 cl
- Ageing 2006 vintage, 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
This 250 cl pot gascon, the traditional round and commanding Gascon bottle, houses the 2006 vintage from Château de Millet. It can be laid down for a birth to be celebrated years later, at the child's coming-of-age or wedding. The eau-de-vie, drawn from a single harvest at the estate, was aged in oak casks by the Dèche family until bottling, sealed with wax. The bottle is bottled at 42% vol. and rests in its 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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