Grosperrin 'Cognac De Collection' 1973 aged 36 Years, Petite Champagne

Grosperrin

Grosperrin 'Cognac De Collection' 1973 aged 36 Years, Petite Champagne

Style Cognac > Petite Champagne
Producer Grosperrin
Origin Cognac (Saintes — between Fins Bois and Borderies)
Bottle 700ml
$732 / btl
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What it tastes like.

This vintage Cognac comes from a family of public notaries who has been located close to the city of Cognac for many generations. This Petite Champagne was part of the inheritance of the father, who had bequeathed his stocks of Cognac to his wife and his son, who was public notary like him. The father has bought this batch on January 1974 to one of his clients, who was at the time the President of one of the most important Cognac Houses. Unfortunately, when the father passed away, his wife and his son were in disagreement and the succession was blocked until we propose a solution. This is a very sentimental cognac, stored under State control since the 25th of January 1974, in a very humid cellar located on the bank of the Charente river in the city center of Cognac. This cellar is today the Cognac Museum. The harvest 1973 was abundant ( 62% compared to the harvest 1972 in Petite Champagne!) and was qualified of harvest of the century at the time.
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\nWarm gold colour, with amber lights. The nose is rich and unctuous; ripe fruits, dark-red plums, Mirabelle plums, spices (curcuma, cardamom, pepper) and sandalwood, cedar scents. Surrounding the fruits, the lovely old rancio nose that well-matured Cognac develops. The taste increase the fruity delicacies (plums again, dark chocolate with cinnamon) and the spicy side (tobacco, nutmeg). At the end, slightly bitter as coffee beans, complexity and elegancy of a controlled rancio.

48.5% ABV

700ml

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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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How to pour it.

  • Temperature

    8°C · ice bucket 20 min before pouring

  • Glassware

    White-wine glass or tulip flute (skip the narrow flute — it suppresses aroma).

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Grosperrin 'Cognac De Collection' 1973 aged 36 Years, Petite Champagne
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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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