Armagnac-Cognac | Le Delas Rungis
Armagnac - Cognac
As a cocktail, digestif or in desserts.
A traditional Bas-Armagnac, elegant and carnal. An amber color and a nose of dried fruits and quince jelly, touched with dried flowers with hints of coconut on aeration. The attack is oily and honeyed. The palate presents a superb fusion of fruit and wood; the power is controlled over the length and reveals accents of prune, almond and rancio. The more toasty finish opens with subtle notes of leather. Elegant and heady, the XO is the flagship of the estate's traditional Bas-Armagnacs. A great Bas-Armagnac, blending eaux-de-vie that are on average 15 years old, to be served at room temperature after a meal or at the end of the afternoon to relax.
Montreur d'Ours is a unique Bas-Armagnac Hors d'Âge, a blend of barrels of Plant de Graisse, Ugni blanc and Baco grapes aged 10 to 20 years. This cuvée pays homage to the ancestors of the Grassa-Artaud family, originally from Ercé, a small village in the Ariège mountains, at the foot of the Pyrenees, who maintained the tradition of Montreur d'Ours. In 1912 they bought the Domaine Tariquet in Gascony, which had been producing Armagnac since 1683. The Grassa family reintroduced the Plant de Graisse grape variety in 2001. It is an old forgotten grape variety of Armagnac. It offers eaux-de-vie with astonishing length in the mouth, extraordinary fullness and tremendous elegance. Blended with Ugni Blanc and Baco, it gains in finesse and aromatic power. Montreur d'Ours is packaged in a wooden box made by a local craftsman with pine from the Landes de Gascogne forest.
Beautiful amber color. Powerful nose of prunes, lots of richness and concentration, aroma of warm bread with a touch of toast and gingerbread. Allowed to breathe, superb aromas of baker's oven, rancio and candied fruit appear. The palate is smooth, round, almost excessive, no alcohol sensation, the woodiness is there: beautiful and vanilla.
The finish is blooming with a return of macerated stone fruits.
The youngest of the eaux-de-vie is made up of a blend of typical Bas-Armagnac grape varieties aged in the cellars of Domaine Tariquet, in French oak barrels (from 2.2 hl to 6 hl), for a minimum of 15 year. Elegant and heady, Domaine Tariquet's Hors d'Âge (or XO) is the flagship of the estate's traditional Bas-Armagnacs. An amber color and a heady nose of dried fruit (almond) and quince jelly, touched with dried flowers that reveals hints of coconut on aeration. The attack is oily and honeyed. The mouth presents a superb fusion of fruit and wood on a controlled power over the length. Accents of prune, almond and rancio towards a more toasted finish marked by subtle notes of leather.