Originally Posted by
jbcarioca
Ah, not always. Generalization have their limits. There are some fine Armagnacs that show subtlety, refinement and delicacy. Surely with a single distillation most of them are as you say. I have before me right now a bottle of 1977 Cépage Bacco of Baron de Lustrac, and another of 1982 Domaine de Jaurrey of Laberdolive. I challenge anybody to find a cognac that begins to comapre in precisely the terms of refinement, smoothness, delicacy
Absolutement mon cherie.
My interest in armagnac started when I first chatted after service with a chef whose food I adored. He loved armagnac. He collected it in order to drink it. He shared it with people that were left in his restaurant after he'd finished service. He never kept some for barmitvahs or weddings.
From then on - and this is off course unscientific - I noticed that the French whose taste I some times respected seem to enjoy armagnac and considered cognac prissy and for Americans and Japanese or for people who
thought that
they were refined. Or French politicians who are of course refined. And if you can't afford to drink a bottle with friends in one session then it isn't fit for purpose.
What is more .... I also drink grappa. Now do your worst.
