Loujan Bas-Armagnac 25 Year Old 700ml

Loujan Bas-Armagnac 25 Year Old is a long-aged Gascon brandy led by Baco with Ugni Blanc in support, bottled at 43%.

Bas-Armagnac is the westernmost and most highly regarded of Armagnac's three sub-regions, a pocket of acid sandy soils known as sables fauves that give brandies of unusual delicacy. The grapes are the Gascon classics: Folle Blanche for florality, Ugni Blanc for freshness, and the hybrid Baco 22A for its rounder, plummier weight. Unlike Cognac, Armagnac is distilled once through a continuous alambic armagnacais at low strength, so more of the raw material survives into the spirit, and it is then aged in local black oak. Baco 22A is the variety Armagnac keeps for its oldest bottlings because it stands up to decades in wood better than the others, and at sixty per cent of the blend it sets the tone here. Twenty-five years in black oak leaves the spirit soft-edged, with the fruit turned dried and the tannin fully resolved.

An after-dinner brandy for slow drinking, at its best on its own or with a cigar; serve at room temperature in a small tulip glass.

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