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The Maison Surrenne bottlings were selected by the founders
of Germain-Robin from the extensive holdings of Cognac's largest
remaining family-owned producer. Surrenne operates four
distilleries and its eight cellars hold a remarkable collection of
aging cognacs, notable for their very high quality. We selected
superb distllates that typify regional variation, emphasizing their
individuality by demarcating vintage, distillery, and even
indiviual cask.
~ SINGLE-DISTRICT BOTTLINGS ~
ANCIENNE DISTILLERIE petite champagne
From the home distillery, a lovely 19th-century stone edifice on the Charente River in Jarnac. Beautiful soft fruit, rich but delicate flavor. Ever so easy on the palate, remarkable quality at the price. Cognacs from the petite champagne do not demand the cellar time needed to soften their more austere cousins of grande champagne, so you can enjoy the flowery fruit qualities that are lost in extended aging.
BEST BUY - Wine Enthusiast
Double Gold Medal - SF Spirits Competition
DISTILLERIE GALTAUD unblended borderies
Luscious bottlings from a single vintage. Select casks, usually 14-15 years old, from the production of Galtaud, a single-still distillery operating since 1800 in the village of Mainxe. Distinctive and full-bodied, from a tiny and often overlooked Cognac region called the “Borderies”. Excellent length. Look for the characteristic Borderies flavor of nut kernels and the distinctive hint of violets in the nose.
Cognac of the Year - Wine & Spirits Magazine
5 Stars / Highest Ranking - Spirit Journal
XO SINGLE VINTAGE grande champagne
A 29-year-old blend of superb cask-strength cognacs chosen from Maison Surrenne’s home cellar in Jarnac and from their Figon, Moreau, and Brunetiere cellars. Rare quality, outstanding length, rich and enduring aromas and flavors: a classic XO from Cognac’s premier region. Note the subtle aroma of orange blossom that is the hallmark of the finest of grande champagne.
4 Stars - Spirit Journal
~ COLLECTOR'S SERIES ~
The sort of cognacs you might get to taste out of an age-darkened barrel on a visit to an artisan producer - if he was in a good mood. We select the Collector’s Series cognacs for their extraordinary quality, but we also care a lot about distinctiveness and authenticity. These small lots are often unblended and usually unfiltered.
TONNEAU NO. 1 petite champagne
Inconceivably rich. In 1922, Surrenne filled an oak tonneau with old petite champagne cognacs. Concerned about evaporation because the tonneau gets direct sun from the half-moon casement over the entry door, Surrenne's successive cellar-masters topped the tonneau every year for 79 years, always with old petite champagne of very high quality. Never used, the blend contains a high proportion of cognac aged more than 100 years. 4 Stars - Spirit Journal
1946 unblended grande champagne
In the fall of 1946, Hubert Portier returned to his life work: the distillation of small quantities of cognac from grapes grown in his family’s vineyard. This year’s harvest was superb, the best in memory. In a rustic building behind the vineyard, Portier charged his ancestral still; even in 1946, the fact that it was wood-fired was old-fashioned. Using methods passed from father to son for generations, Portier carefully produced sixteen barrels of a wonderful cognac.... 51 years later, cataloguing their inventory the owners made a discovery at Maison Surrenne: Portier’s cognac, originally intended, like all cognac, to become part of a blend, had remained a separate lot. At some point transferred to a larger tun, it waited its time, amber-gold, now fully mature. Its aromas and flavors were astonishing. Maison Surrenne has bottled the lot unblended, with no additives, just as it came from the tun, in tribute to its distiller, who quietly produced one of the finest cognacs ever made. 96 Score - Wine Enthusiast
1875 Héritage unblended grande champagne cask strength
In October of 1998, courtier Alexis Cabanne went down the stone stairs into the cellar of an 18th-century farmhouse outside Jarnac. On the earthen floor among the age-darkened oak barrels stood Médéric Rousseau’s family treasure: six rattan-wrapped demijohns of a cognac whose precise date of distillation is unknown but which appeared in an inventory taken in 1875. Héritage was almost certainly distilled from wines vinified from pre-phylloxera grapes. Its exceptional quality is demonstrated by - despite its age - its unusual softness, delicacy, and finesse. You can taste that it has aged for more than a century. There is an extraordinary presence: a serene profundity that comes from decades of undisturbed slumber in a quiet backwater.
Cognac of the Year - Wine & Spirits
cask 356 grande champagne
Exceptional quality; genuine rarity. We believe this to be one of the finest cognacs in existence. Surrenne will release two cases - 24 bottles - a year. It is astonishing cognac. Surrenne’s previous cellar-master, Hilaire Guilbaud, assembled cask 356 in 1961 - his personal choice of the house’s finest old grande champagne cognacs, most of them over 100 years old. The cask was placed to age between the supports of Tonneau no. 23 in the home Madame cellar, where it has spent another 40 years, undisturbed. There remains cognac sufficient for some 235 bottles. Every component of the blend is well over 100 years old. Bottled unfiltered from cask no. 356 on August 10, 2001.
5 Stars / Highest Ranking - Spirit Journal
