Frapin Château Fontpinot XO Grande Champagne 700ml

Frapin Château Fontpinot XO Grande Champagne is a single-estate cognac grown, distilled, aged and bottled at the château that gives it its name.

Grande Champagne is the first cru of Cognac, soft Campanian chalk whose eaux-de-vie mature slowly and live longest of all the region's crus. Frapin is unusual in drawing solely on vineyard it owns, some 240 hectares of Ugni Blanc around the Château de Fontpinot at Segonzac, where the family has farmed since 1270 and where everything from growing to bottling takes place. The base wine is distilled on its lees in small copper pot stills, and the eaux-de-vie age in Limousin oak in the estate's own humid cellars. Fontpinot is the Frapin family seat, and this XO is built from the estate's older reserves. Long ageing in damp cellars lets the strength fall away slowly of its own accord, so the spirit reaches 41% with very little reduction, which is unusual at this level.

A contemplative after-dinner style that also stands beside dark chocolate or a mature hard cheese; serve at room temperature in a small tulip, never warmed over a flame.

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