The scent of dried apricots and figs mingles with rose petals and gigerbread. NOSE: the longer aging is immediately evident with notes of cinnamon, vanilla, and honey, but the wood is balanced with a lively expression of fruit. This Cognac has spent at least four and a half years aging in a combination of new and used French oak casks.ĮYE: burnished gold color hints at the lush aromas and flavors to come from this spirit. The VSOP is a generous beauty, elegant with a winning character. Mery Melrose is a modern, organic farmer making stunning Cognac from his small vineyard in Grande Champagne. Initial cocoa, supple, soft and long final. Palate: advanced wood, pepper, vanilla, rounded tannins, rancio (walnut). Nose: soft spices, pepper, cinnamon, cloves, vanilla, gingerbread. A genuine classic.' - 5 Stars, Paul Pacult.Ĭolour: deep amber, shiny clear, olive green reflections. As good as twenty-year-old Armagnac can get. The palate entry is suggestive of bittersweet dark chocolate, cocoa butter, chocolate covered raisins, and dark honey at mid-palate the taste profile becomes fruitier than the entry and less bitter-sweet, making for a succulent aftertaste that's spectacularly satisfying. The potent spirit races from the copita in the initial aromatic burst, leaving behind dried aromas of raisins, prunes and herbs aeration serves to alter the aromatic direction as the bouquet turns biscuity, caramel-like, honeyed, cream sherry-like, and even dark chocolate, with more than a passing perfume of cheese-like rancio wow. 'The deep, old copper penny colour is reminiscent of aged tawny Porto flawless purity. Delord 25 years old is elegant on the nose with peppery and spicy notes, it is in the mouth that this Armagnac will unveil its complexity of cocoa, spices (pepper), well-blended tannins, vanilla, rancio (walnut).
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