Grosperrin 'Cognac De Collection' La Folle Blanche 2003-2008 (5 yrs) 43.4% 700ml

Grosperrin

Grosperrin 'Cognac De Collection' La Folle Blanche 2003-2008 (5 yrs) 43.4% 700ml

Style Cognac
Producer Grosperrin
Origin Cognac (Saintes — between Fins Bois and Borderies)
Bottle 700ml
$131 / btl
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What it tastes like.

This cognac coming from 2008 and 2003 harvest would be too young to be part of the Cognac de collection range if it was not so rare and astonished. First because of its grape variety, but also because of the quality of the terroirs of origin. The Folle Blanche is a variety native from the Charentes, before pre-phylloxeric, which became rare in the region (about 1% of the total plantation), because of its sensibility to botrytis. This vine of Folle (exclusively) is planted on a grassy piece of land of about 145 hectares, situated upland the town of St Fort-sur-le-Né, in Grande Champagne. The soil is principally made of chalk (Campanien), considered as one of the best for the cognac production. Since 2011 this parcel is cultivated by the owner, who owns 32 hectares in total. Each year, we buy the full harvest of Folle, which is then turned to wine, and distilled upon our requirement. Then the BNIC seals the harvest.
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\nThis cognac comes from the blend of 2003 and 2008 vintages, two harvests that were distilled on dregs, and then aged in big grain oak casks. The water reduction was done on an 18 months period in our cellars.
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\nClear robe. On the nose, vivacious aromas of grapes, butter, lime tree honey. Some sweet notes of distillation are still emerging, extended by the floral Folle Blanche nature: Iris, Daffodil, and then Jasmine in the aeration. Then come some more evident notes of passion fruits, pineapple, and harvest. In the mouth, the texture is smooth and pleasant, frank notes of vine flowers, apples, and first spices. Beautiful freshness. A balanced and greedy final, floral Folle Blanche notes are exploding. Totally natural, unique, and quaint.

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About Grosperrin.

Cognac (Saintes — between Fins Bois and Borderies) ·Est. 1999

Cognac Grosperrin is an independent Cognac house founded in 1999 by Jean Grosperrin, who had worked in the Cognac trade as a distiller and broker for nearly two decades before launching his own venture. Frustrated by exceptional Cognac batches being absorbed into mass-market blends, Jean began bottling rare casks under his own label as Cognac de Collection — vintage-specific, cask-strength single-batch releases. His son Guilhem took over in 2004 at age 23. The house operates from Saintes, between the Fins Bois and Borderies sub-appellations of Cognac.

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At the table

How to pour it.

  • Temperature

    Room temperature. No ice for the first pour — taste the spirit before diluting.

  • Glassware

    Tulip or copita — NOT a balloon snifter (drops the aroma).

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Grosperrin 'Cognac De Collection' La Folle Blanche 2003-2008 (5 yrs) 43.4% 700ml
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Why Caravan backs Grosperrin

Cognac (Saintes — between Fins Bois and Borderies)

Jean Grosperrin began his career as a distiller in Lorraine in the early 1980s, before moving south to Cognac to work as a distiller and then as a broker — the trade role of finding old Cognac stocks held by small estate-distillers and matching them with houses needing inventory. In 1994 he transitioned into wholesale, and in 1999 he set up Cognac Grosperrin as his own house. The founding decision was a reaction against the standard Cognac trade model: rare batches of old eaux-de-vie that had been carefully aged by individual estates were routinely absorbed into the commercial multi-estate blends of the major houses, losing their vintage and provenance specificity.

Grosperrin's model is to bottle each acquired batch separately under its original vintage and Cru classification — Bons Bois, Fins Bois, Petite Champagne, Grande Champagne, Borderies — and to release them at cask strength rather than reduced to commercial proof. The labels carry distillation year and the cellar history. Jean's son Guilhem took over in 2004 at 23 years old; in 2013 Axelle Grosperrin joined as brand representative. The current cellar holds Cognacs distilled from the 1940s onwards, with ongoing releases of rare twentieth-century vintage stocks the family has acquired across the founding-and-now-25-year history.

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