Delamain Vesper XO

Grande Champagne Cognac

Growth: 100% Grande Champagne.

Origin: Selection from local growers-distillers.

Blend: Blend of various old Grande Champagne cognacs.

Ageing: Each cognacs are aged separately longer than for the Pale & Dry, owing to their origin and then the blend itself, made at the end of the ageing period, is aged for two years more (marriage).

Cask: Matured in well seasoned Limousin oak casks (350L).

Cellar: Old cellars near the river, more humid than dry.

Faibles: The blend at natural strength (around 50% vol.) is very slowly broken down at 40%with weak old Grande Champagne at 15% which enrich the blend.

Style: Roundness, body, length, maturity and mellowness.

Bouquet: Power of the perfumes, length of the fragrance. Suavity. Scents of underwood, dry vine shoots, vanilla (rancio).

Savour: Fullness, maturity, extreme mellowness. Intense fruitiness.

Colour: Amber hue with a bright glint of pure gold.

Strength: 40% vol.

Name: Vesper, from the sixth canonical hour celebrated each late-afternoon in song to reflect its richness and the worshipful sense it imparts.