{"product_id":"parhelia-cask-10-landier-vingtier-lot-60-cognac-grande-champagne-45-6-700ml-copy","title":"Parhelia Cask #10 Landier \u0026 Vingtier Lot 60+ Cognac Grande Champagne 45.6% - (700ml)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eImporter's Notes:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA tiny lot found in the estate of a small Grande Champagne winegrower who had quietly kept this cognac for more than sixty years. In those days growers rarely tracked their barrels precisely enough to claim a vintage — but they always kept a few casks back for themselves and their children, like hidden treasures.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis is one of them: a unicorn asleep at the back of a cellar, one that could so easily have been swallowed into a merchant's stock, and which found its way to us instead. It was secured in 2021, long after the eau-de-vie had been drawn off wood and moved to dame-jeanne — the glass demijohn that stops the clock and holds an old cognac exactly where the grower judged it finished.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBecause the aging account was closed at compte 10, the paperwork can only ever say ten years. The glass says otherwise. The obscuration alone — 1.47% vol., extremely high for a cognac at 45% — is the fingerprint of decades of cask contact, and the nose confirms what the administration cannot: this is a 1960s distillation, sold and shipped honestly under the only age the law lets us claim.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTasting Notes\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOn the nose, this spirit opens quietly, then unfolds: full rancio, walnut and hazelnut skin, dried fig and prune, beeswax and sandalwood, tobacco leaf, and a faint forest-floor earthiness. The alcohol is entirely absorbed into the aromatics.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOn the palate, the chalk-driven line of Grande Champagne, wrapped in an oily, almost viscous texture expresses itself with the following: candied citrus peel, saffron, old leather, bitter cocoa. Tannins fully digested; no wood edge remains.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOn the finish, extremely long and dry, on rancio and cigar box, closing on the saline-mineral echo typical of the cru's chalk.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOverall, a cognac that has finished its evolution. Not powerful — profound. Best offered neat and unreduced; any dilution flattens the rancio.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTotal production: 28 bottles\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Raising Glasses","offers":[{"title":"700ml","offer_id":50539708547235,"sku":"ParheliaCask10","price":374.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0613\/4104\/0803\/files\/ParheliaCask10.jpg?v=1793386891","url":"https:\/\/cellar.com\/products\/parhelia-cask-10-landier-vingtier-lot-60-cognac-grande-champagne-45-6-700ml-copy","provider":"Cellar.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}