Row Spirits Ferme de Bacoge 1990 33yo 50,3%

Bacoge is a Western BA estate. This armagnac selected by Row Spirits is a blend of two 1990 casks, 100% Baco, cask strength. And quite a limited bottling (676 bottles). Let’s go!

Colour: Dark amber, reddish hues. Irregular heavy tears.

Nose: Very rum-like at first, bordering on something between Foursquare and TDL. High level of funkiness, with massive caramelised banana notes. Typical Gascony rancio, but with a very pleasant extra touch.

Palate: Smooth palate, yet those wild funky rum notes return. Hard to imagine tasting this blind (cheers to LDS mates). Rotten peaches, modelling clay, Earl Grey tea. 10% Caroni, 20% Foursquare, 60% cask strength Bas-Armagnac, and maybe 10% green Chartreuse for the herbal lift.

Last Notes: Great warm spices, mainly on smoked paprika and caraway. Green lemon marmalade. Faint Bourbon/Ténarèze echoes. Back on the palate, it feels like a musky perfume, Tom Ford’s Oud Wood for example (never drank perfume, just to reassure you). It ends on clove and menthol. And still those indelible rum notes. Great alcohol integration too. 

Top-notch Armagnac, with a very distinct DNA. Funkiness, precision, depth. Not that far from 90.

My very subjective note: 89+/100