Product info
Product characteristics
APPEARANCE
Flatters the eye, brilliant, lit by yellow orange hews.
NOSE
This vintage offers a good balance and elegance. It opens delicately with an arpeggio of delicious dried fruits notes: hazelnuts and figs. Then unfolds towards light toasted bread.
ON THE PALATE
The 1994 vintage - 27 years old gives pride of place to the aromas of the nutmeg and liquorice. The finesse and balance go hand in hand until the lingering final note of rancio, long and characteristic of skilfully aged old cognacs distilled with lees.
ARTISANAL DISTILLATION BY TASTING
Frapin’s Charente wines are transformed into exceptional cognacs by our master distillers. We distil on lees because we believe it brings more interesting flavours to our cognacs. The lees are dead yeast cells, left over from fermentation, that are placed within the still. At Frapin master distillers control distillation which takes place in our six copper stills of 25 hectolitre Stills.
Ageing
Our cognacs are aged in Limousin oak barrels. It is the wood that gives cognac its warm colour by releasing tannins when in contact with the eaux-de-vie.After that, the ageing process continues in the cellars. Our barrels are stored in different cellars around the estate according to their individual characteristics. Our cellar master is responsible for selecting and changing the position of each barrel overtime according to the ageing conditions sought for each.
Blending
The last step before bottling, blending, is crucial for the cellar master. As a true artist, he must assemble each blend selecting from the palette of eaux-de-vies available to him in order to obtain consistency of quality and character. The goal is to keep Frapin’s style year after year. A true blend of rigour, intuition and experience.
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1270
The Frapin family arrive in Charente
Near the village of Segonzac were winegrowers at first, eventually becoming distillers.
Cognac Frapin embodies the traditions of a family established in Charente since 1270. Over the centuries, 21 generations of winegrowers and distillers have passed down a vineyard and traditional know-how from generation to generation in order to create the Frapin style, taking the very essence of cognac to the highest of levels
1270
The Frapin family arrive in Charente
Near the village of Segonzac were winegrowers at first, eventually becoming distillers.
Cognac Frapin embodies the traditions of a family established in Charente since 1270. Over the centuries, 21 generations of winegrowers and distillers have passed down a vineyard and traditional know-how from generation to generation in order to create the Frapin style, taking the very essence of cognac to the highest of levels
Founded in 1270 and proud of its winegrowing heritage, the house of Frapin.