Cognac Tiffon, "Braastad" VSOP, 0.7 L

"Braastad" VSOP - Cognac, created from alcohols derived from the most prestigious areas of the Cognac region - Petite Champagne and Fins Bois. The average age of alcohol is 8 years. Cognac is great as a digestif.
"Braastad" IUCN won the gold medal at the competition "IWSC" in 2003, 2005 and 2007.

Brandy House Tiffon - the biggest family business in the region of Cognac - was founded in 1875 Mederikom Tiffonom in Jarnac, located on the banks of the Charente River in the heart of the region. In 1913, the granddaughter of the founder - Edith Russo-Tiffon, married a Norwegian Sverre Braastad, who at 20 years of age moved to Jarnac, where his uncle, Halfdan Braastad, worked as a financial manager in "Cognac Bisquit". Sverre Braastad worked there as a sales representative.

After World War Sverre leaves "Cognac Bisquit" to open a family business producing cognac. In 1919 he records "Cognac Tiffon SA". In 1946, Sverre buys Chateau de Triac, where justified with his wife and eight children. Until the last days (Sverre lived 100 years and died in 1979) Braastad management company and passed accumulated over many years of experience to their children and grandchildren.

Today the house Tiffon owns 100 hectares of vineyards in the areas of Grande Champagne and Fins Bois, which are grown white grape variety - Ugni Blanc (95%), Colombard (4%) and Folle Blanche (1%). Own Distilleries located in Jarnac and Chateau de Triac, can handle alcohol in 500 hectoliters of wine per day. In addition to its own grapes, raw materials, which are purchased from local growers. In the cellars of cognac house Tiffon are 15,000 barrels with a capacity of 350 liters, made of French oak and Limousin Tronkays. This number aged cognac enough to produce twenty million bottles of cognac.