Jacky Navarre is a fourth generation cognac distiller. His eleven-acre estate in Gondeville in the Grande Champagne region grows primarily ugni blanc among other grapes and he hand-harvests his fruit, which just isn't done anymore. He distills on the lees (the spent grapes) in his 30hl Charentais pot-still. He adds no sugar, no boisé (concentrated boiled wood chips...which is allowed), no caramel color, and perhaps most shocking, NO WATER. He allows his cognac to lower to 90 proof by natural evaporation.
Measured across 14 flavor axes. Tap a note to find other bottles that lead with it.
Showing the most detailed of 3 parsed reviews.
One brilliant cognac with loads of complexity. It is full of flavor including papayas, pineapples, mangoes, kiwis, blackberries, prunes, orange marmalade, peaches, quince jelly, milk chocolate, white chocolate, leather, tobacco, salted caramel, butterscotch, plantains, sunflowers, violets , wildflowers, bananas, almonds, hazlenuts, walnuts, coconut, and honey.
Moments of greatnes compete with too much oak.
Fruit bomb!
Closest flavor profiles across the whole catalog.
