Remi Landier "Lot 87" Fins Bois

Ryan's Review

Remi Landier
Lot 87
Fins Bois
55%
Through The Grapvine (LMDW)

Remi Landier. Another small house, with a small range of offerings, and relative youngsters in the cognac community.  Their land, Domaine De Cors, resides in the Fins Bois region and saw its first vines planted back in 1890. In 1973 the family began producing cognac under the Remi Landier label. They grow grapes on 110 hectares of vines and produce and bottle cognac for several ranges. The Classic range is younger affordable entry cognac, while the Artisinal range is well-aged, quite limited, and quite expensive. Most of their cognac is obviously colored, with the exception of their "Special Pale" range, which states on their website "unchillfiltered, uncoloured, no sugar added".  Does the absence of that statement for the other bottles suggest that their Classic and Artisanal ranges suffer from chill-filtering and added sugars? With that said, here we have a privately bottled Remi Landier by La Maison Du Whisky for their Through The Grapevine label, which is exclusively single cask and small batch cognacs. It's bottled at 55% and labeled as Lot 87, which in cognac-speak suggests it is a 1987 vintage. So we are looking at a 29 year old cognac at cask strength. No official word on whether this is unadulterated cognac, but let's just focus on how it tastes.

Nose: Lots of sweet caramel and pineapple up front. Some fresh herbs, perhaps eucalyptus. Some of that great polished oak you only get in a well aged spirit.
Taste: A sweet lush entry with tropical and citrus fruits. Mostly mango, pineapple syrup, maybe some guava, very juicy... also caramel, tobacco, milk chocolate. A thick mouthfeel.
Finish: Finishes on vanilla oak, fresh eucalyptus, some herbal bitters, and warming spices. The fruit still comes through under all of that.

It's no pushover at 55% and yet it's easy to drink.  Abundant in tropical fruits and caramel and chocolate.  A complex finish that shows off its age, with some warming oak spices and gentle herbal notes, but nowhere close to being old or tired. This could be found for $115 when it was still available. An excellent 29 year old cognac at an excellent price point.  Perhaps we should try one of their Special Pale's next time.

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