Frapin Cognac Millésime 25YO 1995 (70cl)
£134.95
The wine
A single-vintage Cognac from 1995, aged twenty-five years in Limousin oak. Dried fruit, toasted nuts and sweet spice over a long, warming finish, with the rancio note that marks a properly aged spirit.
Frapin have farmed the same Grande Champagne estate since 1270 and remain one of a handful of houses controlling every stage from vine to bottle. Grande Champagne's chalk gives spirits of great finesse that mature slowly, which is why the finest old Cognacs come from there.
The producer
Frapin
View all Frapin winesFrapin sits entirely within Grande Champagne, the most highly regarded of the six cognac crus, with 240 hectares of vineyard. It remains in original family ownership, and the family's history of growing vines and distilling runs back to 1270.In 1480 the Frapin and Rabelais families were joined by the marriage of Antoine Rabelais and Anne-Catherine Frapin, whose son was the writer Francois Rabelais. In 1697 Louis XIV granted a coat of arms to his apothecary, Pierre Frapin.
The cognacs are made by long-established methods handed down through the generations, from grapes grown exclusively on the estate. That single-estate approach is rare in a region built largely on blending bought-in eaux-de-vie.
