Conquering History
Miles & Vines
"A diversity of soils which give rise to a richness of vintage taste"
Taste of the West
The story of Bas-Armagnac or “Black Armagnac” because it is a little wooded, is located to the west of Armagnac where the south-east of the Landes and the west of the Gers rise in front of it. A relief is made up of slightly sloping hills cut by the valleys of the Twelve and Midou to the north-west. These fertile subsoils, composed in their summits of a few fragments of stones with a high concentration of iron cover the tawny sands which are there. The soil is clayey-sandy. As for the slopes of the hills, they are formed of more or less carbonate or sandy clays dating from ancient times.
The Taste of the North
The story of Ténazère or “Condomois” is as follows: its lands are located north of Gers and south of Lot-et-Garonne; Made up of clay-limestone soils, known as Gondrin and dating from the Neolithic period, the valleys there are sometimes topped with deposits mixed with limestone debris in the form of micro-stones. In this subsoil generating varied soils, the limestone is in fact shallow and the hills that are there give clay soils offering fertility and vitality to the soils.
Taste of the East
Finally, the story of Haut-Armagnac takes place in the east of the Armagnac region. It is called “Armagnac blanc” because of its prominent hills, composed of limestone, topped with very clayey soils. The latter are found to be difficult soils to work, thus making one of the most complex Armagnacs to produce but paradoxically one of the most appreciated.