More about Ansley’s Alambic Brandy Release No. 3
The blend’s younger brandies display the rich clean fruit that made us famous: Warm Mendocino days create wine grapes with unusually rich fruit, and the cool ocean-breeze nights provide good acidity: clean, well-defined flavors. The older brandies from 1984, ’88, and ’94 (30-40 years in oak!), have an extraordinarily deep fruitiness, the reason Robb Report ranked Germain-Robin Best Liquor in the world, ahead of Macallan and a cognac costing $1500. The blend contains chenin blanc, once one of our favorite grapes, but almost all chenin has been ripped out for grapes with more market appeal. We’ll never have a brandy like this again.