Darroze 1974 Domaine De Tucom Bas Armagnac

80% Baco, 20% Ugni Blanc. 48 years in oak.  Bottled: July 2022  46.5%

Beautiful amber color with orange tints. A very complex nose that is both fresh (candied orange peels, dried apricots) fine spices (cinnamon, cloves, gingerbread) mild tobacco and praline. On the palate, the alcohol-tannin aroma balance is remarkable. The tannins are firm and delicate long in the mouth.  46.5% ABV

This was the original basis for the business: single vintage, cask-strength, single domain Armagnacs bottled to order. No additives are used for the Collection series, and none of these Armagnacs are ever blended. Each is marked with the month and year of bottling so that the buyer knows exactly how long the spirit rested in barrel (once bottled, the ageing process stops).

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. Importer Notes