Darroze 1972 Chateau De Gaube Bas Armagnac

Golden yellow color, with darker tints. The nose is very expressive, with a lot of different flavors : dry figs, prune, apricot, walnuts. On the palate , the tanins quality is superb. A high quality raccio character shows that the ageing conditions were perfect. Distillery Notes  100% Baco 50 years in oak. bottled: April 2022 52% abv

Marc has partnered with a high-quality mobile distiller, who makes the rounds in a truck after harvest much as mobile distillers would in the bygone days of horse and wagon. Thus Marc both buys barrels of aged Armagnac from farmers like his father did, and he buys the just-distilled white spirits from a given farm and ages it himself. Typically, a new spirit will go into a new barrel in the drier Darroze cellar (Marc has separate ageing cellars), two conditions that encourage faster evaporation and oxidation. After several years, this spirit is racked into an older barrel and moved to the more humid cellar, factors that naturally slow the maturation process.