Domaine Tariquet<br />VSOP<br />Grape variety(ies) :<br />Ugni-blanc 60% Baco 40%.<br />Characteristics :<br />The youngest of the eaux-de-vie making up this blend of typical Bas-Armagnac grape varieties has been aged in our cellars in oak barrels for a minimum of 7 years.<br />a minimum of 7 years<br />Tasting notes :<br />Very Superior Old Pale - VSOP<br />Beautiful amber colour. Powerful nose of prunes, lots of richness and concentration, warm bread aroma with a touch of toast and gingerbread. On aeration, superb aromas of<br />baker's oven, rancio and candied fruit appear. The palate is smooth, round, almost excessive, no sensation of alcohol, the wood is there: beautiful and vanilla. The finish is<br />full-bodied<br />with a return of macerated stone fruits.<br /><br />The cigar alliance<br />by Yves Belaubre<br /><br />Tariquet VSOP Flor de Copán Línea Puros, Churchill<br />Perhaps the most woody of Tariquet's Bas Armagnac, the VSOP offers a first fiery but not aggressive nose of toasted oak, orange jam, and slightly vanilla prune.<br />vanilla. On aeration, deep scents of rancio, pear skin and toast enchant. The delicacy of the toasting of the oak woods in which<br />Tariquet eaux de vie age and embellish in patience, is superbly translated by this woody harmony which marks the mouth with a slightly resinous and vanilla<br />and vanilla flavour. On the elegantly warm finish, the woody sensations become more toasted, almost bitter almond, on a background of honeyed resin that<br />The length of the palate unfolds, awakening greedy gingerbread sensations.<br /><br />Created in 2003, Flor de Copan's Linea Puros range now includes<br />four vitolas, all made from 100% Honduran tobacco. From the ancient Mayan region of Copan (northern Honduras), famous for its light, smooth and gently<br />The Linea Puros offers a spicy and roasted interpretation of the ancient Maya region of Copan (northern Honduras), famous for its light, smooth and slightly liquorice<br />tobaccos. The Churchill has a velvety, even brioche-like smoke, with roasted and woody aromas and beautiful nuances of bark, moss and nuts, enhanced by hints of nutmeg<br />and white pepper and more acidic touches of cardamom.<br /><br />The meeting of the VSOP and the Churchill Linea Puros also offers lovers a superb variation in taste around the woody expression - soft forest bitterness - and similar<br />almost brioche-like textures. The intense smoke, quite dense but not very fatty, awakens<br />The intense smoke, fairly dense but not very fatty, awakens honeyed impressions at the attack of the Tariquet, the acidulous spices (cardamom, nutmeg) of the smoke<br />bouncing off the fruity bitterness (orange peel) of the Armagnac.<br />of the Armagnac.<br />As the brandy rises, the Linea Puros smoke makes its spices (nutmeg, cardamom) resonate on the finely wooded vivacity of the Tariquet before melting on the long palate<br />into the tones of roasted bark, roasted nuts and liquorice (gingerbread) that characterise this alliance.<br />From resinous honey to walnut, from vanilla woodiness to cardamom, from roasted bark to liquorice, the accord carries the spicy flag of the forests. The bittersweet notes on<br />the finish are tinged with gingerbread smoke, and caramelised walnut the fruity wood of this<br />Traditional blended Armagnac, aged for 8 years.<br />To the Mousse, gingerbread, raw walnut. Toasted woody start, nuts, grey and white pepper. Slightly salty smoke, acidic touch not greasy, light roasted wood with nutmeg<br />spice and rising cardamom note, the churchill echoes its spices on the palate marked by more intensely roasted wood and reveals roasted nut flavours in the rancio of the<br />brandy.<br />On the attack, the smoke goes into the roasted nuts, exalting the woodiness of the VSOP.<br />On the long finish, the spices are enhanced (almost cardamom on the Linea, cinnamon and white pepper on the Larc).<br />The smoke enhances the gingerbread nuances of the VSOP.<br />The acidity of the smoke rebounds in the orange peel side of the VSOP.<br />The bitterness is enhanced on the finish (bitter almond and liquorice): a delicate roasted woody fusion.<br />
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€67.80
