Brugerolle 19 yr 1993 Master of Malt (54.2%)
N: a relatively brash, wood-driven cognac, not so much the elegance of decades in wood as the boisterous teen years of an especially active barrel. Brown spice, red fruit, bright acidity, rather Port-like
P: woody and tannic yes, but with some almost youthful acidic red fruit, and finishes spicy with fireball candy. A rather meaty distillate in a wormtub malt sort of a way
Explicitly an Armagnac-y style cognac, but still recognizable as the latter, somehow. There’s something in there that’s a key to my own taste, because I tend to like Armagnac with this profile a lot less than I like this…
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