Description

In the same family since 1711, Château de Lacquy is the oldest family producer of Armagnac. Since this date, Château de Lacquy has remained in the same family, until the current owner, Gilles de Boisseson, representing the tenth generation to succeed one another in Lacquy.

At the beginning of the l 8th century, the development of a wealthy nobility and bourgeoisie with reined tastes in the United Kingdom and Scandinavia, as well as the development of merchant and military navies, created a demand for brandies forcing producers of armagnac and cognac to organize themselves.It was in this context that the Château de Lacquy estate was purchased in l 711, in the last years of the reign of Louis XIV, to produce Armagnac.The Château’s archives show that the estate was an important producer of Armagnac in the 18th century using only the estate’s Piquepoult (Folle Blanche) wines, distilled on site with the estate’s still, transported until the beginning of the 20th century. by oxcart to Mont -de-Marsan, then from there, by boat, to Bayonne from where it was exported.