1828 Comandon Vieux Cognac Réserve
The House of Comandon was founded in 1821 by 20-year-old Pierre Comandon who was quick to seize this new growth opportunity, and he established his business on the Charente river bank in Jarnac. He later became the mayor of Jarnac in 1851, and he was an essential player in the development of cognac sales overseas with dominant market share positions in South America, India, and Africa.
Comandon Cognac is one of the few independent brands that still controls and performs all aspects of its production in-house, explaining why their cognacs have a unique personality. The House of Comandon Comandon is a genuinely outstanding boutique cognac house producing only limited editions cognacs from the most exclusive vineyards of Cognac. Comandon has been a family business for almost 200 years, with many generations playing a vital role in the Cognac community.
Today, Comandon is a cognac ‘independent bottler’ run by the Vigneron family which sources their cognac to bring the best cognac selections available in a large variety of styles as possible in the ‘once sold and drunk’ there is no more. In recent years Comandon has received the highest recognitions being the only boutique cognac producer to win twice ‘world best cognac’ at the World Spirits Competition in San Francisco (2010 and 2014).
This Cognac 1828 Comandon version is on the list of the world’s oldest bottles of Cognac, always strongly sought by collectors. Liquors is distilled and matured in dark cellars, under the right conditions, and then bottled at the right intensity to produce this super product.