# What's a nice armagnac?

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [March 15, 2006, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-a-nice-armagnac/348489 "2006-03-15T18:14:05Z")\
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**Author:** ![ultrafilter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/3d9bf3/32.png) [@ultrafilter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ultrafilter)\
**Post date:** [March 15, 2006, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-a-nice-armagnac/348489/1 "2006-03-15T18:14:05Z")

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I’ve recently developed a taste for cognac, and I’m curious to try some armagnac as well. What’s a nice bottle for a reasonable price? Of course, I wouldn’t be upset to get cognac recommendations as well.

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**Author:** ![LiveOnAPlane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3d9bf3/32.png) [@LiveOnAPlane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LiveOnAPlane)\
**Post date:** [March 15, 2006, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-a-nice-armagnac/348489/2 "2006-03-15T22:46:37Z")

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I don’t have any personal recommendations, as I do not drink it. I do remember an article on armagnac in Delta’s “Sky” magazine from several years ago. I tried to find it, but their on-line editions don’t go that far back. It was a really interesting article, too bad.

I did, however, in my search, find [this tidbit](http://www.delta-sky.com/2005_12/Pie/index.html) which recommends Marie Duffau Napoleon Bas Armagnac highly. (Scroll down to about the middle of the page)

Hope it helps, sorry I couldn’t have provided more for you. It is an interesting libation.

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**Author:** ![ultrafilter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/3d9bf3/32.png) [@ultrafilter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ultrafilter)\
**Post date:** [March 16, 2006, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-a-nice-armagnac/348489/3 "2006-03-16T04:34:39Z")

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The Marie Duffau is relatively cheap, so I went ahead and ordered a bottle. At least it’ll give me a reference point.

[sub][sup](Hey **Ukulele Ike** , are you out there and vanity searching?)[/sup][/sub]

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**Author:** ![ultrafilter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/3d9bf3/32.png) [@ultrafilter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ultrafilter)\
**Post date:** [March 28, 2006, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-a-nice-armagnac/348489/4 "2006-03-28T05:01:58Z")

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Despite the best efforts of FedEx, I finally received the bottle that I ordered almost two weeks ago. It’s really not fair that the local liquor store has 500 kinds of vodka but not one bottle of armagnac–this is some high quality liquor. Thanks for the recommendation, **LiveOnAPlane**.