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Le cognac de Bernadette L.74
Single estate, single cask cognac
A cognac of extraordinary complexity designed for sipping
500ml – 44,8% vol.
Cognac de bernadette
IDENTITY RECORD
Growth Area
Grande Champagne
Number of casks
1
ABV
44,8%
Contains
500ml
Grape variety
Ugni Blanc
Number of bottles
433
Lot
L.74
AROMATIC PROFILE
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Flavors
Structure
Citrus
Flowers
Spices
Fruit
Wood
Attack
Complexity
Sweetness
Length
The Story
In 1974, Bernadette Grimaud took over her father’s Bouteville, Grande Champagne vineyards.This bottle contains 500 milliners of a barrel of the eaux-de-vie that she distilled from her very first grape harvest that same year. At the time, she worked 15 hectares of Ugni Blanc vines. During her career as a wine-grower and distiller she went on to add three more hectares to the vineyards she inherited from her father, Gabriel, who, likewise, had followed in his own father’s footsteps.
Pierre Grimaud, Bernadette’s grandfather, had come to the Charente from the neighboring Deux-Sèvres department with his four brothers, in order to repopulate the Cognac region after the Phylloxera crisis forced many farmers off their land. In addition to tending his livestock, Pierre decided to replant grafted vines.
The vineyards flourished and when Gabriel, Pierre’s son and Bernadette’s father, took the reins of the family business, he installed a pot still shortly after World War II. The 15 hectoliter still, modern for the time thanks to the auger system supplying the charcoal pellets to burn, is the one Bernadette used her entire career. Having no heir, she turned to a young Bouteville wine-grower to pick up where she left off.
Bernadette was a pioneer for women in cognac. Her mark remains in the finesse of the flavors contained in this bottle. The result of a manual harvest, native-yeast fermentation, small-pot still distillation, and maturation in a single cask until 2018, this cognac is remarkably elegant.
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