Darroze Bas-Armagnac “Domaine de Bellaire” 1985

The Darroze family are an artisan éleveurs of Bas-Armagnac. Francis Darroze realized that Armagnac can be crafted just like wine: with a unique domain, no blending, and in small and perfectly traceable batches. This vision and devotion he shared with his son Marc, today at the helm of Armagnacs Darroze, offering a great variety of rare Armagnacs that highlight the work of local craftsmen. This bottling from their unique collection is from a single vintage and a single domaine. Each Bas-Armagnac is strictly itself, with the name of the domain of origin, its vintage and the bottling date which tells its real age as eaux-de-vie stop aging once bottled.

 

Domaine de Bellair
Grower: Roma
Appellation: Bas-Armagnac
Terroir/Location: Cravancères
Soil type  : 60% sand and 40% clay
Area: 8 hectares
Grape varieties: 40% ugni blanc, 60% baco
Type of distillation: Continuous distillation at  56% alc.
Distiller: Ballast
Barrels: Regional oak

Matured in oak cask for 38 years.

Description: The Roma family has been producing Armagnacs in Cravencères for several generations. The partnership with Maison Darroze has allowed our customers to discover old vintages from the 1960s to the most recent. An extraordinary collection of wealth, complexity and pleasure. 

 

Brown color with golden tints. This nose shows both spicy (cloves, pepper), woody (tobacco, toast) and fruity aromas (prune, quince). On the palate, the attack is supple, the tannins round. A nice balance with a more fruity end (candied orange peel, ripe apricot). Superb.

$178.00

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