Baron de Lustrac Vintage Armagnac 1996 | 700ML

Armagnac: Baron de Lustrac Vintage Armagnac 1996 | 700ML

Based in Magnan, Baron de Lustrac is an independent leveur and bottler run by Jos Barbe and Ina Bornemann, a dedicated husband-and-wife team. They specialize in releasing single-vintage armagnacs that have been stored on the property where they were originally distilled.

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Size: 700ML

Proof: 80 (40%ABV)

Origin: France

Distillery: Baron de Lustrac

Based in Magnan, Baron de Lustrac is an independent leveur and bottler run by Jos Barbe and Ina Bornemann, a dedicated husband-and-wife team. They specialize in releasing single-vintage armagnacs that have been stored on the property where they were originally distilled. This vintage armagnac from 1996 is brimming with notes of prunes, macadamia nuts, dried stone fruits and a touch of anis.

Baron de Lustrac Vintage Armagnac 1996 | 700ML Tasting Notes

Nose: Full-bodied aromas. Delightful and refreshing.

Palate: This is extremely rich and very balanced in flavour.

Finish: Perfect, long lasting finish.

Distillery Information

Armagnac Baron De Lustrac was unique among the 12 armagnac houses I visited in the fall of 2014. Most houses grow grapes or make wine or distill wine or age brandy, but Baron De Lustrac, or more accurately the company Millsimes et Tradition, they mostly bottle up single-vineyard, single-grape, single-vintage armagnacs that have been stored on the property where they were distilled.Sometimes they do help with the on-site aging, performing tasks for the cask producers like aerating the brandy as is done in armagnac. The process seems weird but in armagnac small producers are often very, very small and may only make a barrel each year. Baron de Lustrac has made a few vintages that are vintage blends from different vineyards, but this seems like the exception to their usual single-single-single scheme. The property that I visited is really a bottling facility. Here they blend, filter, bring down to proof, and bottle by hand in a two-room garage. All the bottling is on-demand, so when someone calls in an order that’s when they go to work. On site, there aren’t a mass of barrels rolled in from the farms where it’s made (armagnac barrels don’t move around much), but they’re transferred to plastic containers to bring to here. Some are very small containers, as a customer may have requested a single special bottle from their birth year, etc.