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Written by Autumn marks the end of the armagnac grape harvest and the start of the distilling season in rural Gascony – a time of celebration
Things are beginning to warm up nicely. It’s late October and people have been breathing clouds of fog into the crisp autumn air all morning. Now shafts of sunlight are beginning to hit the cobbles, creep along the half-timbered houses and animate the crowd assembled in the village square for a fête.
We are in Labastide d’Armagnac, an hour and a half down the road from Bordeaux in southwest France where, every year, over the last weekend in October, l’Armagnac en Fête celebrates the end of the grape harvest and the beginning of the distilling season for the world’s oldest eau de vie.
