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It is in the night of the cellars and old earth-colored barrels that the cognac slowly improves.
For centuries, the buildings, the processes, the gestures have been the same, because no progress can modify without prejudice a perfect success and certain methods that are forever excellent.
No one better than Jacques Chardonne has been able to transcribe the precise, refined and centuries-old universe of the trading houses which, from Cognac to Barbezieux-Saint-Hilaire, have made the fortune and the glory of the Charentes.
Nothing here goes overboard.
Departing from Angoulême, following the Charente, we enter a calm, gentle, barely hilly countryside.
The largest white grape vineyard in France was built slowly, quietly, through hard work and wisdom.
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The Hundred Years War, then the Wars of Religion raged hard here, forging a cautious, if not suspicious, mentality and a defensive architecture.
Jarnac puts on haughty airs (Mitterrandian, to tell the truth, since he…
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