François Chauchet

Our family vineyard is situated in Verrières and Ambleville, two of the very best villages in Grande Champagne, 1st Cru of Cognac. These villages are a real "paradise" to create very elegant, powerful but smooth Cognacs, and are part of a special area in South West of Grande Champagne that some connoisseurs name The Golden Belt of the Cognac... My family has worked in Cognac production for generations and generations. This gives us a real experience and a deep knowledge in the production of Cognac... The fact that we are winegrowers is important, especially when you know that more than 98% of the Cognac sold in the world comes from large negociants. As far as we are concerned, our first occupation is to run our family vineyard, and to take care of the entire chain of the production, from planting and growing the vineyard, through harvest, distillation, ageing in our cellars to the bottling and sales over the world with our family name. Today the Cognac produced in our estate is not sufficient any more, and we buy sometimes batches of Cognac, but only to very few suppliers, who share with us the same philosophy : the passion of quality. We distil ourselves all the wine we produce, to create the very special taste of François Voyer Cognacs. Actually the distillation is THE key point of the whole process of making Cognac. So we really want to control it.

Cognac, France

Le Maine Verret,

33 (0) 5 45 83 02 98