Armagnac
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Chateau De Laubade L’Unique Traveling Barrels
About the Producer Chateau De Laubade is an 80 hectare estate, was founded in 1870. Today it is fun by the Lesgourges family and focuses on sustainable wine growing. They have many armagnacs that tey produce of all different ages and proofs. This L’Unique line focuses on the experimental releases with this not being a…
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Dartigalongue Double Oaked Armagnac
About the Producer Dartigalongue claimes to be the oldest Armagnac house in Bas Armagnac, starting in it’s current form in 1838. If this is true that it’s the oldest, I can’t say but they are quite old. The business has remained in the Dartigalongue family for 5 generations. They use both dry and humid cellars,…
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L’Encantada Le Freche 1990 Armagnac
About the Producer Domaine Le Freche is a well regarded producer from the Bas-Armagnac region. Not much information is available about them online other than the only have ~5 acres of grapes being grown and the predominantly use the Baco grape varietal. This bottle was put out by L’Encantada, one of the premier bottlers of…
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Delord Napoleon Armagnac
Details The US importer, Heavenly Spirits, has some good information on this bottle. Delord is from the Bas-Armagnac region and fermented/distilled from a combination of 57% Ugni blanc, 16% Colombard, 15% Folle Blanche and 12% Baco grapes. While the bottle is NAS, apart from the Napoleon designation, Heavenly Spirit claims the min age in 10yrs…
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Artez Folle Blanche Napoleon Armagnac
About the producer: Artez is a small Armagnac producer in the western part of the Bas-Armagnac region. This distillate was single distilled via a small column still like all Armagnacs and is aged for 10+ yrs in Monlezun black oak. This Armagnac is 100% made from folle blanche grapes; these grapes used to make up…