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Domaine D Esperance Armagnac 5 Years

Domaine D Esperance Armagnac 5 Years

750 ML

$62.99
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Marquis De Montesquiou is like the Sauza Tequila of Armagnac, a brand that was sold to a corporate portfolio, allowing the family members to strike out on their own and create more serious, small-production spirits.

Much like Guillermo Sauza continued on with the family business, Claire de Montesquiou and her husband decided to purchase a small estate named Domaine d’Esperance and follow tradition.

This Five Year Old bottling is distilled, before first aging in a new cask made of local wood from the Gasony forest for a about one year. It is then moved into older Gascon wood barrels for the remainder of the aging process. As per regulation, the youngest Armagnac in the blend has been aged 5 years in gascon oak, with other Armagnacs in the blend showing greater age.

54% ABV / 108 Proof

750 ML

Marquis De Montesquiou is like the Sauza Tequila of Armagnac -- a brand that was sold to a corporate portfolio, allowing the family members to strike out on their own and create more serious, small-production spirits. Much like Guillermo Sauza continued on with the family business, Claire de Montesquiou and her husband decided to purchase a small estate named Domaine d’Esperance and follow tradition.

In 1990, the couple began planting grapes in the sand-based soil of their Bas-Armagnac estate (a lovely terrain mixed with clay and iron -- perfect for Baco and Folle Blanche) and get the ball rolling. By 1995, they were distilling Armagnac again. On two small stills -- one over a hundred years old, the other from a traveling-distiller -- the Armagnacs are distilled at an extremely slow speed.

The XO is a marriage of four different Baco distillates, the youngest being ten years of age. The flavors are rich and full of spice with a lengthy finish of round fruits and salted caramel. Having seen no additional coloring or sweetening agents, this is what XO Cognac drinkers often think they're drinking, but aren't. This is real XO brandy for people who appreciate nuance.