Tag: luxury cognacs
Decanter Magazine Features Hermitage Cognacs 1885, 1920, 1923 & 1944
David Longfield has written in Decanter magazine describing the excitement of tasting some of our most precious nectars with MD, David Baker. All produced over 75 years ago, these Grande Champagne vintages are some of the best we have ever stocked. Here is a snippet of the article to whet your appetite. The entire piece can be read here. “Hermitage Cognac works with top Cognac houses to hunt out small parcels of such old spirits still preserved among the five or six hundred independent producers around the region, looking primarily for those with verifiable vintage dates or age statements that define how long… Read more
The Charente Scene – Summer 2020
Around this time of the year (Summer 2020) we are anxiously looking at the weather to try and determine if we are going to have a good grape harvest in September. The vines are flowering well and every indication is that we will have a bumper harvest. But where are we going to store all the new cognacs when they are distilled? There is simply not enough room this year as coronavirus has dramatically reduced sales by the big houses. In an industry where America alone can take over a million cases a year, world sales so far in 2020… Read more