The Stillery's Limited Edition: Chateau de Vie 2021

Every family has a youngest. Usually the one who gets away with everything. Chateau de Vie 2021 is ours: an eau de vie distilled from grape pomace, including Chardonnay, with one year in barrel. The easy way into the series, neat or in your espresso.

YOUNG, BUT NOT GREEN

After the 2021 harvest was pressed at city winery Chateau Amsterdam, the skins, seeds and stems came to us. We fermented and distilled them and gave the spirit one year in wood. Not long, but long enough for a golden colour. What the winemaker leaves behind, we turn into something new. Like its older siblings: 500 bottles, no more.

IN THE GLASS

Golden. Ripe stone fruit on the nose with a hint of oak. Smooth and silky on the palate, with fig, apricot and vanilla. A long finish with just a touch of warmth.

HOW TO DRINK IT

Neat: 30 ml at room temperature in a tulip glass. Or as a caffè corretto: 20 ml Chateau de Vie in a freshly pulled espresso (30 ml).

Curious what a few more years in wood will do? The older vintages are in Limited Editions.

Volume: 500 ml · Alcohol: 37.5% vol · Vintage 2021 · max. 500 bottles