the bottle

Key facts

Vintage1934

ABV40.0 % vol.

Capacity70 cl

AppellationAOC Armagnac

RegionSouthwest

this bottle

BARON DE SIGOGNAC ARMAGNAC VINTAGE 1934

• Cask oak
• Grape varieties Ugni Blanc, Baco

Harvest 1934, in Bas-Armagnac. The Guasch family distils using a short-column copper Armagnac still, almost a century old, then ages each vintage separately in oak casks at Château de Bordeneuve, in Castelnau d'Auzan. The estate holds vintages stretching back to 1893.

ColourA deep, sustained amber colour

Noseelegant and harmonious, with a lovely fruitiness well integrated with the wood

PalateBroad and unctuous on the palate, full of flavour with a beautiful spiced finish

Serve with best enjoyed as a digestif

the vintage

The year 1934

1934 was a year of contrasts, marked in cinema by Jean Vigo's L'Atalante, a masterpiece of French poetic realism, and on the pitch by the Italian World Cup. In Gascony, the vines of that year yielded a harvest that has since become rare, aged for over nine decades in oak casks and now approaching its centenary.

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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The record

Cellar notes

Appellation

AOC Armagnac

Caractéristique(s)

Woody - Elegant - Fruity - Harmonious

Size

70 cl

Département

Gers

Vintage

1934

Région

Southwest

ALCOHOL RATE

40.0 °

Type de Spiritueux

Extremely rare

Type

Armagnac

Reference

SIGOGNAC_1934

WoodyElegantFruityHarmonious

How it is made

Heir to several centuries of expertise and tradition, Sigognac is one of the oldest houses in Armagnac.

Rare in the trade, Baron de Sigognac owns its own vineyards, its own distillery, its own ageing cellars, and carries out the bottling of its entire production.

Presented in a beautiful wooden box