Ararat Erebuni 5 Year Brandy

Brandy: Ararat Erebuni 5 Year Brandy

Five years old ARARAT Armenian brandy is a classic representative of the ARARAT range. For this blend, special brandy distillates are used, and they gave it a bright character and fullness of taste.

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Size: 750ML

Proof: 80 (40%ABV)

Origin: Armenia

Distillery: Yerevan Brandy Company

Five years old ARARAT Armenian brandy is a classic representative of the ARARAT range. For this blend, special brandy distillates are used, and they gave it a bright character and fullness of taste.

Ararat Erebuni 5 Year Brandy Tasting Notes

Nose: Great elegance and charm on the nose.

Palate: This is extremely rich and very balanced in flavour.

Finish: Perfect, long lasting finish.

Distillery Information

The Ararat distillery sits high on a hill above the capital of Armenia, Yerevan. Its named after the mountain that towers over the city, apparently where Noah landed following the flood. The countrys modern brandy industry dates back to 1877 when Nerses Tairyan introduced Cognac-style stills to Armenia. The most celebrated products, however, were produced in Yerevan by a Russian called Nikolay Shustov. One of his brandies won a gold medal, beating its French rivals, at the Paris Expo of 1900. The French were so impressed that they allowed Shustov to call his product Cognac. This was disallowed following World War II, but Armenian brandy is still known in the Russian-speaking world as konjak. In 1912, Shustovs product got the official seal of approval from the czar. During Soviet times, Armenia was designated as the brandy producer to the USSR. The magnificent Ararat distillery was built in 1953, featuring a communist-neo-classical-meets-Armenian-monastic style dates back to this period. Whereas wine quality suffered greatly under communism, the reputation of Armenian brandy remained high. It functioned as the Johnnie Walker Black Label of the Eastern Bloc. A bottle to the right person could cut through yards of Soviet red tape. The economic turmoil following the fall of communism hit the industry hard. As Becky Sue Epstein writes in her book Brandy: When the USSR disbanded distribution networks disappeared overnight and the market for Armenian brandy collapsed. Nowadays, however, the industry is more stable. The two successor companies to Shustovs are Noy, meaning Noah, and Ararat (aka The Yerevan Brandy Company) which since 1998 has been owned by Pernod Ricard. To make the konyak, they use wine made from local grapes which is double-distilled and aged in East European oak casks. Ararat has its own on-site cooperage. Its a huge concern, producing around 5.5 million bottles per year, thats nearly the entire production of the Armagnac region. The master blender has a huge palette of brandies to make his blends from. They are generally sweetened, the Armenians tend to drink their brandies with dessert. The cheaper ones are very pleasant but once you get to 10 years and above, that is where the excitement starts.