1915 Armagnac: distilled in the midst of the Great War, the year of The Birth of a Nation

1915 - the second year of the deadliest war in history. The trenches stretch from the North Sea to the Vosges. The Dardanelles campaign and the Gallipoli landings turn into a disaster for the Allies: tens of thousands of Australian, New Zealand, French, and British dead. The ocean liner Lusitania is torpedoed by a German submarine in May - 1,198 dead. In Gascony, it is the women, the elderly, and the children who harvest and distill: the men are at the front. The Tour de France is suspended for the second consecutive year - several champions who raced in 1914 will never return. In cinema, D.W. Griffith releases The Birth of a Nation - the first blockbuster in film history, a 3-hour film that revolutionized cinematographic language with its tracking shots, close-ups, and editing. On the muddy roads of the front, Allied soldiers sing "Pack Up Your Troubles in Your Old Kit Bag" to summon courage - a melancholic and stoic anthem of a sacrificed generation. After 111 years of aging in Gascon oak barrels, the 1915 Armagnacs carry within them all the gravity and courage of that terrible year: rancio of absolute historical intensity, deep incense, ancient resin. Living witnesses of the Great War.

Our 1915 selection

Each bottle is shipped in an exceptional presentation box, with a certificate of authenticity and personalized tracking.

Why is 1915 Armagnac so rare?

Distilled by women and the elderly in cellars deprived of their men who had left for the front, then kept for 111 years - this Great War vintage is of absolute rarity and unique symbolic weight. Each bottle is an act of resistance and continuity in the face of barbarism.