Domaine Boingnères 1984 ‘Folle Blanche’

I’m afraid I have very little experience with artisan armagnac , the single-distilled sister of cognac, but I’m always interested to discover new malternatives.

Domaine Boingnères , run by the Lafitte family, was founded in 1807 and is located in Le Frêche, in the Grand Bas-Armagnac region. For six generations is has been praised for its quality.

This particular example is unusual as it is distilled from a single grape varietal: Folle blanche , the traditional grape in Armagnac, as it used to be in Cognac before the phylloxera. The company focuses on Folle Blanche (50%) but also uses Ugni...