Drouet et Fils XO 'Cuvee Ulysse' Cognac

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Drouet et Fils XO 'Cuvee Ulysse' Cognac
70cl / 40%
With Eaux-de-Vie aged between 16 and 24 years old this well-matured cognac has been seasoned for a generation in older, seasoned, casks which help to develop its aromas and rancio character. Patrick Drouet rather coyly describes it thus; “This cognac of a certain age is ample and delicate. It is smooth, presenting some notes of rancio.” It is certainly well matured, sophisticated, intriguing and well worth discovering to the full.
£70.35
(£58.63 ex. VAT)
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Tasting Notes:
Tasting Notes by Tim F

N:  Upfront gingerbread & spongecake aromas - plus cocoa powder, icing sugar etc.  Toffee apple and furniture polish lurking behind.  Faint hint of liquorice emerging, apple peel, some dried orange peel, mocha, hot-buttered white toast.  In a word: Heavenly.

P:  Smooth as a silk scarf and yet somehow every drop is totally packed with flavour without a single element dominating.  Silky tannins, ripe fruit, sweet spices (and a lot else besides) all harmonise in waves of beautifully-nuanced flavours. 

F:  Long, sweet and almost indecently sensual.  A come-to-bed cognac.

C:  Pulling off a massive flavour impact with every single element both well-defined and perfectly-integrated into the whole is probably the hardest task of a blender.  Yet somehow this house seems to achieve it effortlessly.

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