About this Pineau des Charentes:
This 46-year-old Pineau des Charentes is an exception in its category: extremely long-aged in a cognaccask, from Grande Champagne and bottled in a tiny edition (149 bottles). This is more like a liquid library: layers of time, oxidative finesse and a softness you only get when wood, fruit and oxygen have learned to know each other respectfully over decades. What you taste is not “sweetness” at the forefront, but restrained richness: an ultra-refined, very soft style with deep, warm contours. Think: silence instead of noise. Texture instead of sugar.

Tasting notes:
Nose: Silky and refined with dried apricot and fig, candied citrus, almond and walnut, beeswax and a very subtle touch of tobacco and gentle spices.
Taste: Velvety and perfectly rounded, layers of candied fruit, praline/toffee, orange peel and an elegant rancio depth without harshness but with sufficient acidity to provide structure and balance.
Finish: Long, warm and ultra-polished, with persistent nutty notes, cocoa and candied citrus that slowly fade out.