Ferme de Bacoge

Located in Hontanx in the heart of Bas-Armagnac, Ferme de Bacoge is a historic farm estate dating to around 1760. Christian Bergerot learned vineyard management and cellar operations alongside André Labarbe before taking over the property in the early 1990s.

Traditionally a mixed-use farm, Bacoge combined viticulture, cereal farming, and duck breeding for foie gras. Foie gras production was later discontinued so the estate could focus its attention on Armagnac and agriculture.

The estate cultivates its own grapes, primarily Baco, and distills on-site using a traditional traveling alembic. Three small cellars provide different humidity and temperature profiles, while each vintage ages in a single new toasted oak barrel—a relatively uncommon approach in Armagnac.

Ferme de Bacoge remains a small-scale Armagnac farm grounded in hands-on craftsmanship and rural Gascon heritage.