This Grosperrin N°71 Petite Champagne cognac comes from an auction held in January 2019 for the benefit of Médecins du Monde and Action Against Hunger. It was André Bertandeau, winegrower in Salignac-Sur-Charente, who donated these cognacs to these two associations.
Deported at the age of 20 to the Buchenwald and Dora camps in Germany in 1942 as part of the STO (Service du Travail Obligatoire), André Bertandeau suffered the worst deprivations and inhuman treatment. Fortunately, he managed to survive until the liberation of the camp in 1945. Returning home to the family estate, he regularly bears witness to what he has seen and experienced, hoping that history "will not stutter". He donated the meagre profits from his small property to associations throughout his life and, on his death in December 2016, bequeathed all his assets - property, vineyards and stocks - to these NGOs to help those suffering from war and deportation.
Deeply moved by the story, the humanity and the discretion of this man, as well as by the quality of his eaux-de-vie, the Grosperrin house bought a large part of his stock.
This very old cognac was bottled brut de fût in November 2021, i.e. without any reduction in alcohol content.
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