AraratVaspurakan15YearOld(700mL)

<p>When the French let you use their beloved “Cognac” designation, that’s impressive.</p><p>For good Brandy, you need good grapes and you know how you have to wait a bit after heavy rains to plant your grape seeds? With the sun shining for over 300 days in a year in <em>the valley of Ararat in Armenia,</em> the issue doesn’t come up that often nowadays but the first grape seeds in the region were actually planted by Noah right after the big flood – you know, the one where he had to arrive on his ark because there was water literally everywhere. Anyway, what we’re trying to say is that grapes and traditional Brandy-making go way back in Armenia and one of their oldest, if not the oldest Brandy companies is <em>Yerevan Brandy Company</em> that was founded in <em>1887 </em>in the Armenian capital of Yerevan.</p><p>For over a century, they’ve been producing the award-winning Yerevan Brandy from some of the oldest grapes in the world (Think Noah-old.). Using <em>white grapes, fresh spring water </em>and <em>traditional methods </em>that have been around for thousands of years, they make some pretty remarkable stuff and the story goes even <em>Winston Churchill </em>was a die-hard fan after <em>Stalin </em>gifted him a bottle at the<em> 1945 Yalta Conference.</em> Even the French thought it was really great and worth of their carefully (to put it mildly) guarded designation<em> “Cognac”</em> at the 1900 International Exhibition in Paris.</p><p>“Vaspurakan” is Armenian for “noble country” and in ancient times, Vaspurakan was considered the promised land. Honoring its noble homeland, <em>Ararat Vaspurakan 15 Year Old</em> spent a long time in<em> Caucasian oak barrels</em> that imparted an exquisitely harmonious combination of spice, coffee, and wood aroma. Bottled at 80 proof,<em> this is some seriously luxurious stuff.</em></p>