Sold outNov 2024In short · Domaine d’Espérance (France), 18 years.
“An intense, sweet, warming aroma reminded us of a morning skiing in the Alps before we had lunch in a mountaintop hut, ordering apple strudel made with raisins, cinnamon…”Extract · full tasting notes at SMWS
SMWS A4.7 is a single cask of Domaine d’Espérance, in France, 18 years old, bottled at 48.3%, released in the Nov 2024 Outturn. Every Society bottle numbered A4.x is from Domaine d’Espérance.
Specs, price and tasting-note extract from the SMWS. Full notes on smws.com.
At Mauvezin-d'Armagnac in the Landes, Claire de Montesquiou, back from a career in London, and her husband Jean-Louis bought this neglected family estate in 1990 and brought it back to life. Only a few hectares, of Folle Blanche, Ugni Blanc and Baco, go to armagnac, and in the old Gascon way the estate has no still of its own: a travelling still calls each winter. Montesquiou family's.