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BARON DE SIGOGNAC ARMAGNAC VINTAGE 1966
- Cask oak
- Grape varieties Ugni Blanc, Baco
Sixty years of marriage is a diamond wedding anniversary; sixty years of age is also what this 1966 eau-de-vie brings. For a couple or a milestone birthday, it offers a meaningful date and a story to tell: that of a Gascon harvest kept at Château de Bordeneuve, never blended into an assemblage. Baron de Sigognac bottles only to order, so the Armagnac remains in the cask until the very last moment. 70 cl, 40% vol., presented in a wooden gift box, with the bottling date on the back label.
Serve with best enjoyed as a digestif
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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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