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MILLET ARMAGNAC VINTAGE 1977
- Ageing Vintage 1977, 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 sandy soils in Eauze
January 1977 saw the opening of the Centre Pompidou in Paris. That same year, in Eauze, the Dèche family harvested, vinified and distilled their own grapes, as they do for all their armagnacs. This eau-de-vie from 1977 has never been blended with another year: it aged in oak casks until bottling, the date of which appears on the label. The wax seal over the cork does the rest. The 70 cl bottle, at 42% vol., comes in a wooden gift box, ready to present.
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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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