Posted in: Greenway Distillery, Individual Products

Ansley at the door to a Maison Surrenne cellar. The black stuff is a local mold, Baudoinia Compniacensis, that grows on the evaporating fumes from barrels of cognac. Below our cellar at the ranch had it after a few years, probably from the old cognac barrels we were using.

Posted in: Germain-Robin, Maison Surrenne, Notes from Ansley

Posted in: Brandy, Germain-Robin

Posted in: Brandy, Germain-Robin

Posted in: Firelit, Individual Products

Posted in: Germain-Robin, Individual Products

Posted in: Brandy, Germain-Robin

Posted in: Brandy, Germain-Robin

Posted in: Brandy, Germain-Robin, Tech Notes

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If you want to know who we are, right now, look at this. I’ve given a lot of tours to journalists: Kelli White’s sense of the right questions to ask was unique. Her article, posted in Antonio Galloni’s Vinous, is spot on. Nice to have it in such a well-regarded venue.

http://www.vinous.com/articles/germain-robin-french-original-american-twist-jun-2015

It’s what we can’t say ourselves straight out. Hubert and I took the finest of artisan cognac methods and improved on them: better grapes, better control of crush and fermentation. Too bad she came before we bottled for the Barrel 154 Chenin, which is the finest single spirit I have ever encountered. Her reviews are the deepest reviews we’ve ever had. She nails our brandies’ DNA.

“Decoding Germain-Robin: the markings on this barrel ‘FC(98) K(ML)’ indicate that the contents are 1998 French Colombard from the Kiefer Vineyard that went through malolactic fermentation.” –Kelly White

 

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