Taylor C.

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French wine, and the concept of terroir, captured my interest early on. Naturally, curiosity took me to spirits, in particular Cognac. Today I'm proud to be a member of the Cognac Expert team managing B2B projects, working on Cognac Expert Originals, and writing bottle reviews for the English Blog. I love to taste anything and everything - rum/rhum, whisky(ey), Armagnac, etc. - but no other spirit grabs my attention quite like Cognac, and all of its subtleties and nuance. Santé !

Paul Giraud Tres Rare

Highly Recommended 87 /100

The nose is lifted, precise, and all around beautiful. There is a wonderful intersection of chiseled fresh, dried, and candied fruit and fragrant finely spicy oak - a great combo. Imagine mango, peach, apricot, and orange peel all coated in a fine mix of baking spices. I recall smelling similar aromas in Marancheville's recent Lot N. 14/45 Cognac. Very fine nose. It wafts!

In the mouth, I find it amazing that such a mature Cognac can provide such clear forward fruit flavors: fresh and candied mango, peach, and apricot. Orange peel too. The fruit is sharp and chiseled and extremely precise. With more time in the glass the fruit seemingly gets more present and more precise. Accompanying the fruit is a lovely combination of fragrant cedar wood and fine tingly spices. I hesitate to use the word rancio since it is such a hard word to define, but this fits my preconceived idea of what rancio should be.

Length is long as the fruit flavors linger on the tongue for a long time between sips. Count in minutes, not seconds here. It's a lesson in length - not intensity though, which brings me to my next point, an opinion of course. The one issue I have with this Cognac is it is slightly underpowered. Don't get me wrong, this is fantastic Cognac at 40%. But bottling this at 42, 43, or 44% could make it mindblowing. I'm not a spirits nerd that only clamors for cask strength stuff - far from it. But the experience of this almost perfect Cognac could be that much better with just a few abv points higher.

Still, the aromas, the flavors, and the overall balance is terrific!

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Saveur

Bois 6/10

Pimenter 7/10

Fruit 9/10

Fleur 4/10

Conception de bouteille / emballage 3/5

Où est l'amour? Ordinaire Joli Beau Un spectacle à voir !

Le rapport qualité prix 4/5

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