Clos Martin XO 15 Year Old Bas-Armagnac 750ml Dessert Wines from New Riff's 10-medal year

from New Riff's 10-medal year at the competition

Terry Adams (Malts of Scotland): 97 pointsAdams applauds the 40-year-old for its “rich compote of fruitcake

and toasted pecan emerging as it opens

and any celebration where the founding story of Napa Valley's most important winery belongs at the table

the "aged to taste not based on timeframe" philosophy that governs every Cierto expression applied with its fullest authority to the expression where time matters most

Clos Martin XO 15 Year Old Bas-Armagnac 750ml Dessert Wines from New Riff's 10-medal yearThe XO designation in French brandy law requires a minimum of six years of oak aging. Clos Martin's XO 15 Year is aged for a minimum of fifteen two and a half times the legal requirement. That specific decision communicates Clos Martin's quality philosophy more directly than any marketing claim: the legal minimum is the floor, not the target. The target is the specific combination of roundness, mellowness, and fruit forward approachability that