Grape of the Art Château de Laubade 2001 #90 70cl (04/2025)
When we taste cask samples in the GotA team, we luckily tend to have similar tastes most of the time. Sometimes it can be frustrating though, because everyone has their own favourite and nobody wants to compromise (which is a good thing!). That was exactly the case with Château de Laubade, which led to some veeery heated discussions about which cask we should bottle.
Luckily we then also received a sample of cask no. 90 and suddenly we had a clear favourite with 4 out of 4 votes! Funnily enough, all of us immediately thought of one particular rum style from Barbados: Rockley Style!
We are all big rum lovers and are always happy when we find something unusual and different for the Armagnac community. It has been a while since we picked an Armagnac that tastes this much like rum and would certainly fool plenty of connoisseurs in blind tastings.
This is definitely one of the most unusual Armagnacs we have tried so far! It is dominated by an amazing mix of fruit, smoked honey and that particular “Rockley taste”.
The Armagnac was produced in 2001 by Château de Laubade from Baco grapes in Bas Armagnac, France.
It matured for 23 years in cask 90 in a semi-humid warehouse and was bottled in 2025 (04/2025) by Grape of the Art at 50.7% cask strength. An Alambic Armagnacais (Column Still) was used for distillation.
Flaschenanzahl: 251.0 Flaschen Zusätze: No additives Flascheninhalt: 70cl Artikelgewicht: 1.3 kg Hersteller: Grape of the Art (Wet Drams GmbH, Uhlandstr. 10, Kupferzell, 74635, Germany)
