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| Hello, that is considered one of our (nearly) each day tastings. Santé! |
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November 28, 2021
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Extra French wine brandies
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So armagnac and cognac but additionally tremendous from different areas. In different phrases, some tremendous fines. Ha. Bear in mind a tremendous is distilled wine (as a substitute of marc or spent grapes). Simply to provide you an instance…
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Très Vieille Advantageous de Bourgogne 7 yo 2013/2021 (56%, SAB’s, Islay sherry cask, batch #W04/21, 360 bottles) 
An uncommon set-up for positive, tremendous de Bourgogne matured in Burgundian wine barrels after which completed in ex-Islay sherry. Whether or not that was a peater or not stays to be seen, however what’s positive is that what we have tried from SAB’s till now has at all times been very good. Color: gold. Nostril: pure kirschwasser straight from a nonetheless, all cherries not destoned, plus somewhat wine vinegar and large notes of acetone. Appears like we’ll have to tame this one. I would not name it ‘smoky’ this far. With water: nearly no modifications, besides that you’d nearly imagine they’ve added sorb or holly eau-de-vie. Even perhaps elderberries. I am undecided I might have mentioned ‘Advantageous de Bourgogne’. Mouth (neat): very punchy, a tad extra on butterscotch this time, with as soon as once more a sense of oak-aged eau-de-vie. Fairly previous sloes or ‘prunes’ this time, maybe. With water: geared in the direction of malt whisky, with some lemony and certainly smoky tones, extra butterscotch, some fudge, inexperienced pepper… End: lengthy, earthier, grassier, spicier. Pepper stems and lees. Grapefruit liqueur un the aftertaste. Feedback: laborious to explain, laborious to pin down. Absolutely successful at any blind tasting session. Spirit for the metaverse? I actually prefer it rather a lot however do not take my rating too significantly, I am missing references.
SGP:462 – 83 factors. |
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Très Vieille Advantageous de Bourgogne 7 yo 2013/2021 (56%, SAB’s, peated Islay bourbon cask, batch #W03/21, 360 bottles) 
Similar form of label. This ought to be much more ‘meta’. Color: gold. Nostril: nobody would blame you for saying that is malt whisky. Notes of charred American oak, butterscotch, vanilla, fudge, maple syrup, some coastal touches (there was a sea in Burgundy round 150 million years in the past), a couple of bitter tones (bitter cherries) and an total feeling of steadiness and coherence. That got here sudden. With water: a tad extra in the direction of citrus, maybe chardonnay (am I dreaming?) and with a couple of remaining acetic tones. Balsamico. Mouth (neat): many wonderful malts are like this, actually. Pretty earthy tones, charred oak, maple, drops of maraschino, pepper liqueur, some Szechuan pepper… That is really ‘meta’! With water: maintain on, malt whisky! Highland Park cask power! I could also be exaggerating a wee bit, however solely a wee bit. End: lengthy, somewhat extra on fudge, peat certainly, and a grapefruit/citron combo that is working very effectively. Feedback: this was all certain collectively by sorcery. What would the previous Bourguignon monks say?
SGP:564 – 86 factors.
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Let’s stay trustworthy, we had been extraordinarily removed from any correct French tremendous, not to mention from cognac or armagnac (that are fines too). Let’s make amend…
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Château de Laubade 2000/2020 (52.4%, OB, Bas-armagnac, brut de fût)
From baco and ugni blanc 50/50, all from their very own property. We have had an superior 1990 in the identical collection the opposite Sunday (WF 88). Color: golden amber. Nostril: praline and butterscotch, mead and younger rancio, then gravy and candy sushi sauce. All that’s completely impeccable, agency and relatively tight, whereas I take pleasure in these whiffs of previous cellar and previous humidor which can be beginning to rise to your nostrils after twenty seconds much more. With water: oils, pine resin, parsley… The wooden was fairly energetic. Mouth (neat): pretty meatiness, with somewhat pine and camphor on high of many raisins and prunes. Notes of cedar wooden, drier fudge… Now the piney facet would are inclined to develop and develop, let’s have a look at… With water: no, all is ok, the raisins and different dried fruits are having the higher hand. End: lengthy, wealthy, lingering. Some triple-sec and meat extract within the aftertaste. Feedback: pretty much as good because it will get at this form of age, I might say. You may discover many classic Laubades in eating places in France however these had been often bottled at 40% vol. That is very completely different.
SGP:661 – 87 factors. |
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Domaine de Poutëou 1990/2021 (46.3%, LMDW, Model Française, Bas-armagnac, 300 bottles) 
By no means heard of this wee property, they’re situated in Lannemaignan within the Gers, not too removed from Labastide d’Armagnac. Color: amber. Nostril: rounder and fruitier, simpler than the Laubade, relatively extra on tropical fruits, overripe bananas, Sauternes, apricot, tangerines, the juiciest sultanas, a couple of drops of hay wine maybe… A really ‘horny’ armagnac because it appears. Some white chocolate too and one thing somewhat Cognacqy, if I could. Mouth: wonderful, straightforward certainly, even when it will are inclined to grow to be somewhat too piney, thus dropping one or three factors instantly. Fruit peelings, jams, liqueurs, all that retains an excellent steadiness whereas when liquorice allsorts begin to kick in, it is changing into ueber-fruity and bonbony. I am sorry however certainly, that is very ‘horny’. End: relatively lengthy, with the identical excessive fruitiness plus much more liquorice. Feedback: this goes down too effectively; they need to do solely double-magnums.
SGP:751 – 88 factors. |
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Jean-Luc Pasquet ‘Le Cognac d’Eraville L.90’s’ (42.8%, OB, Confluences, Grande Champagne, 767 bottles) 
This a mix of varied mid-Nineties distillate, all from the village of Eraville. Color: gold. Nostril: I am first discovering somewhat calvados, with some very ripe apples, even pommes tapées (hit apples, a factor they make within the Loire valley), additionally pears, then extra tropical touches, round guavas. Some ice wine too, then honeysuckle and lilies. I discover this one relatively luminous, even splendid. Mouth: extraordinarily good, fruity, barely tropical but once more (pink bananas), with some rose jelly, quinces, delicate liquorice, correct pear liqueur and some glasses of tangerine juice. Which, naturally, is a no brainer. End: medium however recent, with some menthol, honeydew, maybe somewhat pinot gris… And people pommes tapées as soon as once more. Feedback: it doesn’t trash the armagnac, in no way, nevertheless it’s nonetheless a wee bit superior, in my little ebook. Each high-flyers anyway.
SGP:651 – 90 factors. |
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Fins Bois ‘No.52-22’ (46.6%, Swell de Spirits, Swell & Co, Grosperrin cellar, 2021)
This one’s model new. I actually like what this new little firm’s doing, they discovered a special voice – and good inventory, apparently. Plainly it is very previous Fins Bois distilled within the Fifties certainly and transferred to demi-johns within the yr 2000. Not too positive about what the ’22’ means. Color: deep amber. Nostril: oh, previous sauces, bouillons, meads, wines, cordials and liqueurs… How pretty is that? Quinces first working the present, with somewhat crème de menthe and camphor, then relatively apples and pears (a sense of calvados that we have already skilled in the present day), previous well-taken-care-of cigars, then candy soups, onions and caramel, English brown sauce, even candy BBQ sauce (American)… There’s actually rather a lot occurring in there… Mouth: I used to be afraid it will be too woody however not so. Splendid notes of honeysuckle, chamomile, spearmint, honeydew, dried figs, heather honey, then that wee meatiness once more, round ‘Anglo-Saxon sweeter meaty sauces’ (please bear with this poor Frenchman)… Some sultanas too, naturally. End: that is the place the oak begins to point out a wee bit however whereas it could not go above 90.00 in my ebook due to that, every thing stays affordable, refreshing, and resonant (what?) Feedback: a real movie-cognac (btw there’s an excellent Cinema pageant in Cognac). Sooner or later I am going to additional discover the ‘bois’ (fins, bons, ordinaires).
SGP:561 – 90 factors.
Nov 29 replace: it’s really a mix of 1922 (20%) and 1952 (80%). Thanks Kelly and Michaël! |
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Maison Prunier 70 yo 1950/2021 (62%, The Purist Belgium, Wineforyou, Grande Champagne, 50 bottles)
Image of a twin bottle, my mistake (thanks Ruben). From the caves de la Maison Prunier. So this has clearly spent seventy years in wooden and saved a A.B.V. of 62%. Which might recommend that the cask was both saved in Kentucky, or ‘excessive in an excessive attic’. Or that the within was coated with diamond powder or some sorts of ceramics. Color: amber. Nostril: fruit wines! Fig, date, even strawberry, all that with some gravy and a few marmalade, plus buttered caramel… Nevertheless it’s 62% vol. With water: fantastic meatiness, sausages, rabbit stew, saltimbocca, with some sage and a few lemon… Mouth (neat): unimaginable, big, large, nearly as aggressive as a speech by Steve Bannon. I do know, we have now acquired one as effectively in little France. Extremely citrusy, nearly lemony. With water: fairly tough at +/-45% vol., as if it was a lot youthful. Excellent raisins, caramel, onion soup, mead, Trappist beer (amen), gritty, salty liquorice… End: lengthy, biting your tongue, considerably rustic, however actually splendid. Virtually as if 1950 was really the yr 2000. Fairly some inexperienced tea. Feedback: a particularly intriguing previous cognac, filled with mysteries. I had first thought I might preserve this one for Christmas and use it because the sparring accomplice for G&M’s 80yo Glenlivet that we’ve not formally tried but, however no worries, we’ve got even older Pruniers. Mysterious Pruniers.
SGP:561 – 89 factors. |
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