LATERRADE 1996 Domaine de Marquet (Castandet) Cask Strength 40° Bas Armagnac 70cl

This Armagnac is presented at its natural proof, unfiltered, uncolored, cask strength. Bottled on February 18, 2025.

Grape Variety: 100% Baco

Terroir: Bas Armagnac, clay-limestone soil 

Distillation: Distilled at the time by Mr. Roumat in Villeneuve de Marsan using an Armagnac still

Cask Strength: Unfiltered, uncolored, unreduced

Aging: Extremely humid cellar, aged 30 years in French oak barrels from the Gascony forest.

Vincent Laterrade, with his experience as a former sommelier and a deep love for his Gascon region, has passionately dedicated himself to selecting fine Armagnacs for independent aging and bottling for about ten years. Thus, all year round, he explores the region's cellars in search of treasures, old batches never bottled, sometimes never discovered, sleeping for decades in cellars from another era. His selection of Armagnacs is incredibly accurate and complex, with a keen tasting experience. Each year, superb batches emerge, like those from the greatest Scottish bottlers. The batches are never reduced, and you won't pay for the packaging, which is very sober but with very elegant bottles!!

Recently, he also started aging a white wine cuvée, Etoile Filante, in barrels, with the same care as his Armagnacs. For this purpose, he set up in a superb, typically Gascon barn of rammed earth and wattle and daub, which he is renovating with a love for the old.