Pineau des Charentes Chateau d'Orignac

Pineau des Charentes Chateau d'Orignac

Region
Cognac, France
Producer:
Chateau d'Orignac
Grapes:
Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot
Wine Description:

A blend of aged Cognac and grape juice. Delicious as a sweet apertif or digestif and with blue cheeses.

Grape varieties : 60% Merlot and 40% Cabernet Sauvignon.

Patiently aged at least five years in cellar in 225 L French oak casks.

Tasting Note:

Beautiful amber colour with golden tints, it offers a powerful aromatic nose, with subtle hints of ripe yellow fruits like apricot, honey and raisins, spice and flowers, oranges! It is pleasantly sweet and refreshing with a great harmony between grape flavours and Cognac aromas. Intense, elegant and distinguished, this Pineau is the inimitable meeting of roundness and elegance that makes it one of the most famous ambassadors of its appellation.

Serving Suggestion:

Excellent with meals, desserts and cheese. Will keep in fridge once opened as it is sweet with a high alcohol content of 18%.

Producer Description

This 20 ha vineyard is located in the heart of the appellation "Cognac Fins Bois" on limestone slopes near the Gironde estuary, 50kms south of Cognac. On this exceptional and unique "terroir", we cultivate with passion and great attention 30 years old Cabernet and Merlot grapes for the Pineau and Ugni Blanc and Colombard, white grapes to elaborate the Cognac.

Château d'Orignac, a family home, has been producing grapes for at least 800 years. Over the successive centuries all its occupants have been deeply involved with the spirit of the property, which has given it the timeless and serene atmosphere it has today. The first known records of the estate, indicate the year 1200, when Ythier, Orignac horseman and squire of the neighborhood married Sybille, Hélies's daughter, squire of Virollet. The building took on its present day aspect when it was modernised by Monsieur de Saint-Légier in about 1840 and surrounded by formal avenue, gardens and woodlands in order to make "a more agreable dwelling place". This was according to records dated 1864.