{"title":"Born in 1985: Vintage Armagnac and Spirits","description":"\u003cp\u003eSpirit distilled in 1985 has had four decades in oak to soften. For a 41st birthday it is an unusually personal present, since the year printed on the label is the reason for giving it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA vintage is a single year in a bottle, not a blend, and each one is limited by the cask it came from. Once emptied, that year is finished. Email \u003ca href=\"mailto:orders@liquorwinecave.com.au\"\u003eorders@liquorwinecave.com.au\u003c\/a\u003e if you are after a year not shown here.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"domaine-boingneres-1985-cepages-nobles-grand-bas-armagnac-49-700ml","title":"Domaine Boingneres 1985 Cepages Nobles Grand Bas Armagnac 49% 700ml","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis single vintage armagnac from 1985 is labelled Cépages Nobles, or noble grapes, a reference to the Folle Blanche and Colombard it is distilled from. It comes from Domaine Boingnères, a small estate the same family has worked since 1807, now across six generations.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eColour.\u003c\/strong\u003e Deep and fairly intense.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNose.\u003c\/strong\u003e Very fine and broad: peach, grape, apricot and melon, with darker chocolate beneath, a little wood, plum and marzipan.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePalate.\u003c\/strong\u003e Dry and fruity yet sweet, light and dark at the same time.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMost of the estate's roughly 50 acres of vines are planted to Folle Blanche, a demanding grape. Its continuous alembics run without stopping through a 20 day distilling season, often at strengths as low as 52%, so the spirit needs no reduction before cask or bottle. It is matured in French oak in a small barn on the property, some casks for many decades as here, with no caramel and no chill filtration.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eExplore other vintages in our \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/liquorwinecave.com.au\/collections\/armagnac\"\u003earmagnac collection\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Domaine Boingneres","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42548585300127,"sku":"BOIN85FBCOL","price":607.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0589\/2322\/1151\/files\/domaine-boingneres-1985-cepages-nobles-grand-bas-armagnac-49-700ml-345183.jpg?v=1712806601"},{"product_id":"darroze-1985-bellair-grand-bas-armagnac-43-5-700ml","title":"Darroze 1985 Bellair Grand Bas Armagnac 43.5% 700ml","description":"\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eBrown colour with golden tints. This nose shows both spicy (clove, pepper), woody (tobacco, toast) and fruity aromas (prune, quince). On the palate, the attack is supple, the tannins round. A nice balance with a more fruity end (candied orange peel, ripe apricot). Superb.\u003c\/span\u003e","brand":"Francis Darroze","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42548585562271,"sku":"DAR1985BELLAIR","price":349.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0589\/2322\/1151\/files\/darroze-1985-bellair-grand-bas-armagnac-435-700ml-574799.jpg?v=1712806096"},{"product_id":"delord-bas-armagnac-1985-mini-40-50ml","title":"Delord 1985 Bas Armagnac 40% 50ml","description":"\u003cp\u003eA 50ml taste of Delord's 1985 vintage. Delord is a family armagnac house at Lannepax in the Bas Armagnac, and each of its vintage armagnacs is distilled from one year and one harvest alone, so no two years are quite alike. The grapes for this one were Colombard, Ugni Blanc and Baco, and it is bottled at 40%.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIn the glass.\u003c\/strong\u003e Copper, with golden glints. The first impressions are toffee apple, roasted almond and hazelnut with sweet leather, backed by cinnamon, clove and vanilla.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePalate.\u003c\/strong\u003e Robust and spicy, with baked apple and raisin, then cinnamon, clove and nutmeg in a rush and a warm, almost prickly tingle from the spirit. It finishes dry, on orange zest, vanilla and nutmeg with old leather, and the length is considerable.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFull bottles and many other years are in our \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/liquorwinecave.com.au\/collections\/armagnac-delord-the-vintage-collection\"\u003eDelord vintage collection\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Delord","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42548634026143,"sku":"DELO85mini","price":16.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0589\/2322\/1151\/files\/Delord1985BasArmagnac40_50ml-260568.jpg?v=1713428367"},{"product_id":"delord-bas-armagnac-1985-40-700ml","title":"Delord 1985 Bas Armagnac 40% 700ml","description":"Produced from Colombard, Ugni Blanc \u0026amp; Bacco grapes.\r\n\r\nCopper with a gold hue. Opening sniffs offer sweet leather, roast almonds, hazelnut, toffee apple and an array of spices including cinnamon, clove and vanilla. The robust, spicy palate yields baked apple and raisin flavours followed by a wave of cinnamon, clove and nutmeg. Warming spirit tingle, almost prickly. Drying aftertaste of orange zest, vanilla, nutmeg and old leather. 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