alc./vol: 40%
Proof: 80°
Vintage: Non-vintage
Aged: No age statement
Product of: France
Made from the wine of Ugni Blanc grapes, 70% distilled using single column distillation and 30% double distillation. The grapes used by Maison Samalens come exclusively from Bas Armagnac (mostly from the grand Bas Armagnac), on the border between the Gers and Landes.
The eaux-de-vie used in the blend are aged a minimum 8 years in casks made of black Gascony oak.
Sampled on 26/12/2015
Clear, deep golden amber.
New leather, sultana, figs, roasted almond, vanilla, brazil nuts, dried apricot, cedar wood and zesty tangerine orange.
Christmas cake, sultana, passion fruit, brazil nuts, spicy oak and lavender with red apple.
Sultana, raisin, nutmeg and mild clove spice with faint lavender and red apple skin
An easy, quaffable, value for money armagnac with good fruity character, lavender and red apple.
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