Cognac B.

As an Appellation d'Origine Contrôlée (AOC), Cognac can only be produced within a precisely defined production area. This area was defined by decree on May 1, 1909. The appellations Cognac, Eaux-de-vie de Cognac, Eaux-de-vie des Charentes are exclusively reserved for eaux-de-vie from wines harvested and distilled in the well-defined territories of Charente Maritime, Charente, some communes of Deux-Sèvres and Dordogne. Key figures A vineyard of more than 78,000 hectares 1st white wine vineyard in France 10% of French vineyards 19 hectares, the average area of a winery Henri Coquand and the origin of the vintage map Henri Coquand ( winebnb.com ), professor of geology, studied in the mid-nineteenth century the soils and terroirs of the cognac production region. It validates with a taster a classification of soils according to the type of eaux-de-vie they can produce. Their work will lead around 1860 to the delimitation of different wines of the Cognac appellation. It will serve as the basis for the decree of 1938 delimiting the current wines.