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Domaine de Millet Rose 2010, Domaine de Millet - Gascony
Domaine de Millet Rose 2010, Domaine de Millet - Gascony
Bottle Price: £7.50
Case Price: £85.5
- Country: France
- Region: Gascony
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- Alcohol: 12.5%
- Bottle Size: 75cl
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80% Egiodola and 20% Cabernet Franc. Egiodola is a cross between Fer (Braucol) and Abouriou originating in the Basque region. The Deche family has made this cotes de Gascogne rose which is light and with a delicious rounded fruit and custard (creme Anglaise!) flavour
Have with: confit, cassoulet and rillettes - Agen prunes. Bayonne ham, walnuts, truffles
Domaine de Millet - Gascony, Eauze
This splendid vineyard of 53 hectares is nestled in the heart of Gascony. Located in the Bas-Armagnac, Chateau de Millet has always been producing high quality wines , thanks to the exceptional grape varieties, to the reasoned work on the vines and a constant evolution of methods and technical equipments.
In 1998, the Dèche family received the Président de la République Award for its 1974 Bas Armagnac – all the Armagnac's are vintage apart from their excellent house style 5 Year Old. The Dèche family has produced its wines for five generations with Francis and his daughter, Laurence, now leading the domaine forward, producing a range of vintage Bas-Armagnac, as well as Floc de Gascogne.
The Armagnacs are produced from the Baco grape variety and distilled with the authentic Armagnac still, before aging in 400 liters oak casks for many years.
Since its Roman introduction viticulture has dominated the region. Vineyards large and small cover swathes of the countryside.. There are a large number of independent domaines and cooperatives producing excellent wines.
The south-west region was first cultivated by the Romans and had a flourishing wine trade long before the Bordeaux area was planted. As the port city of Bordeaux became established, wines from the "High Country" would descend via the tributaries of the Dordogne and Garonne to be sent to markets along the Atlantic coast.
The climate of the inland region was generally warmer and more favorable than in Bordeaux, allowing the grapes to be harvested earlier and the wines to be of a stronger alcohol level. Many Bordeaux wine merchants saw the wines of the "High Country" as a threat to their economic interest and during the 13th & 14th century a set of codes, known as the police des vins, were established which regulated the use of the port of Bordeaux for wine trading. The police des vins stated that no wine could be traded out of Bordeaux till the majority of Bordelais wine had already been sold.
This had a devastating effect on the wine industry of the High Country with barrels of wines being stranded at Bordeaux warehouses for several weeks or months before they could be sold at much lower prices due to that year's market already being saturated with wine. In many years another vintage would actually take place before the "High Country" wines were sold.
