Maison Grosperrin is a specialist cognac bottler based in Charente. The company founder Jean Grosperrin started working in the 1980s as a travelling distiller before becoming a cognac broker. Jean’s job took him to small distillers in the most remote parts of the Cognac appellation in search of the rarest batches, and he became frustrated at seeing truly special batches disappearing into massive blends, and started buying a few old casks for his own small scale bottling. Thus began the roots of Grosperrin Cognac, which is one of the first bottlers to tell the story behind each of the batches and state their age on the bottle. Today, Jean's children have taken over the family business, staying true to the company's central philosophy of expressing the terroir of origin, with good collaboration with growers and distillers throughout the region, an enviable collection of some of the rarest, oldest casks, and careful aging in the flood cellars on the banks of the Charente, which gives them a natural mellowness and dispenses with the need for chill-filtration. Grosperrin is one of Cognac's most renowned producers and bottlers.