serving tip: Do not refrigerate; tasting at room temperature or very lightly chilled is perfect.
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.
Explanation label:
Sepia is that warm, brown-golden hue of old photos and drawings: not as an effect, but as proof of time. And that is exactly what this Pineau lets you taste—the beauty of growing older, of rounding off, of becoming softer without losing any depth. The colours and the abstract movement on the label feel like layers laid over each other: warm ochres and rusty tones for the candied fruit and amber sheen, darker accents for the rancio and the old wood, and the gold as a signature of elegance and its beautiful reflection in the glass.
