Grosperrin Cognac Batch Nº71 — Petite Champagne

Grosperrin Petite Champagne Cognac. This Cognac comes from an auction held in January 2019 in aid of Médecins du Monde and Action contre la Faim. The cognacs had been donated to those two NGOs by André Bertandeau, a winegrower in Salignac-sur-Charente who passed away in December 2016. In 1942, aged 20, Bertandeau was deported by the STO to Germany, to the Buchenwald and Dora camps. He survived until the liberation in 1945. On returning to the family estate, he bore witness throughout his life. He donated the modest proceeds of his small property to charitable associations and, on his death, bequeathed all his possessions — estate, vineyards and stocks — to those NGOs. Moved by the story, the humanity and the discretion of a man who had never even imagined his donation might be considered significant, and by the quality of his eaux-de-vie, Grosperrin acquired a large part of his stock.