Indestructible bottle-carrying suitcase
A virtually indestructible suitcase, with special inserts for bottles, goes on sale in the UK shortly for £229. The hard shell with high density foam ...
Whole Bottle of Cognac Drunk Before Flying
A Chinese woman reportedly downed a full bottle of XO cognac at a Beijing airport security control after being told that she could not take ...
Conviviality Retail Buys On Trade Wholesaler Matthew Clark
A hindrance to the premium cognac market? The owner of Bargain Booze, one of the UK’s largest off licence chains, is moving into the On Trade ...
World’s Most Expensive Cocktail
Guinness Book of Records Entry - Was is a Fake? A cocktail made in an Australian casino using 1858 Croizet Cognac was sold for £8,200 - ...
The Charente Scene – Autumn 2015
Strange, in our last edition we commented how attitudes had changed in the Charente vineyards as the wet and cold weather had changed to warm ...
Premium Spirits preferred
The William Grant & Sons Market Report looks closely at changing consumer habits following the recession and concludes that “Value is much more than just value ...
Brandyclassics News – Four Gold Medals
Another great year at The Spirits Business Awards for Hermitage Cognacs as all four of our entrants were awarded GOLD medals. Hermitage Provenance Grande Champagne ...
A Great Name Disappears – A.E.Dor is no more.
The firm A E Dor has been sold to the Cognac co-operative, Uni-Cognac, for an undisclosed sum. We understand that Uni-Cognac are keen to move ...
Hermitage 1900 Salles d’Angles Grande Champagne Cognac
We have often had more than one 1900 vintage in the Hermitage range and this one originating from the region of Salles d’Angles, on the ...
The Land and The Vines Part 1 – Terroir
The French have a word, 'terroir' which cannot be directly translated into another language but refers to the land, the weather, the climate and just ...
