Moyet is a type of very fine cognac. Cognac Moyet was founded in 1864 and has experienced increased commercial success during the past twenty years after over one century of dedication to the very highest possible French cognac brandy standards.

Cognac Moyet was considered the real “Sleeping Beauty” of French cognac brandy, its collection of antique cognacs, kept in the “paradise” of the house, rediscovered by the connoisseurs a quarter century ago, gave Moyet the deserved reputation of an “antiquary of cognacs”.

History

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Cognac brandy has a long history and Moyet has been part of that story of cognac brandy for over 100 years. Euthrope Moyet, a vine grower and a distiller, was forty years old in 1864 when he founded his Moyet Company to produce cognac brandy in Saint-Sulpice, in the middle of the famous Borderies vineyard, nearby the city of Cognac, south-west of France.

Euthrope Moyet, with the help of his son-in-law, André Tessier, made his cognac brandy company very successful with a very modern and precursory dedication to building a reputation above all through the high quality of its cognac brandy.

Their flair for international commerce enabled Cognac Moyet export cognac brandy worldwide, as far away as Thailand, China, or California, amazing destinations at the end of the nineteenth century. But André Tessier, officer in the French Army, was killed in the first weeks of the First World War, and Euthrope Moyet died in 1918. Afterwards, the company lost its commercial dynamism, while keeping its dedication to quality. But through the prudent hands of the different heirs who cherished the family tradition, it continued till the late seventies producing the very best quality cognac brandy, with great dedication to the finest cognac brandy standards.

During all these years, Cognac Moyet was in a way preserved from modernism. That is why in 1978, a group of friends visiting the company fell in love with the unbelievable poetry of this old wax-smelling cognac house and bought it. Cognac Moyet passed out of the hands of the original founding family, but with new owners determined to maintain the tradition of producing the finest cognac brandy in the world.

The house contained many treasures, the greatest and most valuable of which were not only its cellars, still full of gorgeous antique cognacs, but certainly the irreplaceable traditional craftsmanship. Since 1864, only two cellar-masters had successively cared for the cognacs, the founder himself until 1918, and his apprentice and successor until the new owners in 1978.

This longevity inspired a journalist to say that drinking a cognac from Moyet cellars was like hearing in the twentieth century a Liszt’ s sonate played by a very old and brilliant pupil of his.

Bottlings

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• Moyet Cognac des Fins Bois
• Moyet Cognac de Petite Champagne
• Moyet Cognac Fine Champagne
• Moyet Cognac des Borderies XO
• Moyet Cognac Fine Champagne XO
• Moyet Cognac de Grande Champagne EXTRA OLD
• Moyet Très Vieille Fine Champagne
• Moyet Très Vieille Grande Champagne

External links

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• Moyet Homepage

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