Guillon Painturaud Cognac VSOP Grande Champagne

The Guillon-Painturaud family owns 18 hectares of Ugni Blanc located in one plot around the farm they have been living in since 1610. In the 1970s, they began bottling under their own name rather than selling to the big house producers, and they have never looked back. Passing the distillation education from generation to generation, the family business is currently run by an energetic young woman named Line Guillon Painturaud, who has brought forth some fantastic brandies. The VSOP is an average of 15 years old and is brimming with supple fruit and caramel. Paul Pacult's Spirits Journal gave it 4 stars and the Wine Enthusiast named it the Best Bargain Brandy of 2009.