tasting notes
Here you’ll find all my tasting notes sorted by their cru and listed in alphabetical order.
Grande Champagne
57 reviews

Daniel Bouju Brut de Fût Royal 60%

De Charville Frères VSOP 40%

De Charville Frères XO 40%

De Charville Frères XXO 45%

Delamain Pleiade 40 ans 1983 44,5%

Delamain Vesper X.O 40%

Dudognon Heritage 41%

Dudognon Vieille Reserve 40%

François Peyrot Lot 59 44,20%

François Voyer 2006 Fût Unique 70th Velier 42%

François Voyer Extra 42%

François Voyer Extra Christmas 43%

François Voyer Napoléon 40%

François Voyer VSOP 40%

François Voyer XO 40%

Grande Champagne Session #1

Grande Champagne Session #2

Grosperrin Cépages 42%

Grosperrin G.C 100% Folle Blanche 2003 42,3%

Grosperrin Grande Champagne 35/41 45,8%

Grosperrin Grande Champagne La Folle Blanche 43%

Grosperrin Grande Champagne N°80 58,1%

Grosperrin Grande Champagne N°90 54,8%

Jean Fillioux N°1 46%

Jean Fillioux Reserve Familiale 40%

Jean Fillioux Très Vieux 40%

Jean-Luc Pasquet Kongesønnen XO

Jean-Luc Pasquet L’Essentiel 42%

Jean-Luc Pasquet L’Organic Folle Blanche L.X. 48,4%

Jean-Luc Pasquet Le Cognac d’Eraville 42,8%

Jean-Luc Pasquet Le Cognac de Claude L64

Jean-Luc Pasquet Le Cognac de Regis 40,5%

Jean-Luc Pasquet VGC Confluences 45,5%

JLP Le Cognac de Claude 49,8%

JLP Le Cognac de Jean-Philippe L.88 48,7%

Malternative Belgium #14 Le Brûlé Lot 60 50,5%

Malternative Belgium #16 Le Roi de l’Automne 50,4%

Malternative Belgium Avec Allure Jean Fillioux Lot 65 47%

Malternative Belgium La Fête F. Voyer 43,3%

Malternative Belgium La Flèche de Feu Jean Fillioux 1992 43%

Michel Forgeron Barrique 87 56%

Michel Forgeron Folle Blanche 2011 47%

Michel Forgeron XO 45%

Navarre Cravache d’Or 45%

Navarre Souvenir Impérial 40%

Navarre Vieille Reserve 45%

Paul Giraud 1999 Fin du Siècle 70th Velier 43,5%

Paul Giraud Tres Rare 40%

Paul Giraud Vieille Reserve 40%

Prunier Lot 40 G.C 55%

Ragnaud Sabourin 1990 41%

Ragnaud Sabourin Florilege 46%

Raymond Ragnaud X.O 40%

Through the Grande Champagne : François Voyer

Tiffon Grande Champagne 40%

Tiffon Très Vieille Réserve Grande Champagne 40%

Vallein Tercinier Grand Rue 34 42%
Petite champagne
29 reviews

Andre Petit Petite Champagne L14 40%

Bertrand Napoléon 40%

Bertrand VS 40%

Cadenhead’s Charpentier 30yo 52,4%

Château de Montifaud L50 40%

Château de Montifaud Napoléon Special Cigar 46%

Château de Montifaud VSOP 40%

Château de Montifaud XO 40%

Cognac Sponge Heritage No.69 48,8%

Estève Très Vieille Réserve de la Famille P.C 40%

Fradon Lot 70 P.C Trough the Grapevine

Grosperrin Petite Champagne 1969 47,2%

Grosperrin Petite Champagne 1974 47,5%

Grosperrin Petite Champagne 29-47 + Pre-Phyllo

Gyl Richard X.0 40%

Jean-Luc Pasquet “Le Cognac de Pierre” 41,3%

Jean-Luc Pasquet Le Cognac d’André 51,3%

Jean-Luc Pasquet Lot 62 Serious Brandy cask 2

Jean-Luc Pasquet Très Vieille Petite Champagne 44,3%

JLP Le Cognac d’Elisabeth L.89 46,3%

JLP Le Cognac de Noël 46,4%

Lheraud Louis XVI 43%

Malternative Belgium #13 La Boutique Lot 69 45,2%

Malternative Belgium Cognac #3 “La corbeille de fruits” 40,1%

Malternative Belgium Le Voyageur 40,6%

Malternative Belgium Les Patissiers Bertrand MA 50 54,8%

Montifaud X.O Silver 40%

Swell de Spirits Cognac Pasquet L83 51,9%

Vallein Tercinier Lot 70 P.C 52%
Borderies
13 reviews

Giboin L’Essentiel Tres Vieux Borderies 46,5%

Giboin Millesime 1996 40%

Giboin XO Borderies 40%

Grateaud Napoléon 40%

Grosperrin Borderies 11 ans 46,8%

Grosperrin Borderies N°28 53,8%

Grosperrin Borderies N°64

Héritage René Rivière Apanage 48%

Héritage René Rivière Grand Hommage 40%

Héritage René Rivière Très Vieille Réserve 40%

Héritage René Rivière Vieille Réserve 40%

Le Roch Borderies XO 42%

Swell de Spirits #2 N65 Borderies 56,7%
Fins Bois
22 reviews

Cognac Sponge Héritage No.45 50,5%

Cognac Sponge Héritage No.68 55,4%

Fins Bois Session #1

Grosperrin A29 L’Essentiel Fins Bois 47,8%

Grosperrin F.B 100% Folle Blanche 2006 43,9%

Grosperrin Fins Bois 1959 45,4%

Grosperrin Fins Bois 1989 48,4%

Grosperrin Fins Bois 1993 46,4%

Grosperrin Fins Bois N°52-22 46,5%

Grosperrin Fins Bois N°58 44,5%

Grosperrin Fins Bois N°87 41,6%

Grosperrin Fins Bois Sous l’Escalier 52,6%

Jean-Luc Pasquet Fins Bois 68-72 Kirsch Import 59,1%

Jean-Luc Pasquet GOTA Lot 68-72 66,6%

Jean-Luc Pasquet LGA Lot 68-72 58,9%

Landreau VSOP 40%

Les Raisins de l’Abbaye X.O 40%

Swell de Spirits #1 N52-22 Fins Bois 46,6%

Tiffon Tres Vieille Reserve Fins Bois 40%

Vallein Tercinier Fins Bois Lot 89 48,5%

Vallein Tercinier Fins Bois Rue 91 WDC 45,3%

Vallein Tercinier Rue 75 Fins Bois 47%
Bons Bois
9 reviews

Andre Petit Les Quatre Annees de Berneuil 44,3%

Bons Bois Session #1

Doussoux Bons Bois X.O 30 ans Saint Seurin Selection 48,19%

Doussoux Bons Bois X.O N°89 43%

Grosperrin Bons Bois 25 ans 49,8%

Grosperrin Bons Bois 50 ans 47,8%

Grosperrin Bons Bois N°38 42,8%

Grosperrin Bons Bois N°61 47,4%

Vallein Tercinier L’Essentiel Bons Bois 44,5%
Multi-CRu (Blend)
16 reviews

AE DOR Napoleon 70’s 40%

Camus VS 40%

Courvoisier VS 40%

Frapin VS 40%

Hennessy Fine de Cognac 40%

Hennessy VS 40%

Hennessy VSOP (2000-2010) 40%

Jules Gautret VSOP 40%

Malternative Belgium Buche de Noel XO 44%

Martell VS 40%

Rémy Martin 1738 Accord Royal 40%

Tiffon Tres Vieux Superieur 40%

Vallein Tercinier “VT46” 46%

Vallein Tercinier Hors d’Age 42%

Vallein Tercinier Napoléon 40%

Vallein Tercinier VS 40%
PINEAU DES CHARENTES
4 reviews
Armagnac
10 reviews

Cognalternative Session #3

Darroze Domaine de Coquillon 1978 49%

Darroze Domaine de Laburthe 1976 46%

Darroze Domaine de Mahu 1941 50yo 45%

Dartigalongue Folle Blanche 1993 46,3%

Domaine d’Aurensan Carré des Fantômes 46%

Hontambere 1985 GOTA 56,6%

La Haille 1988 42%

Lous Pibous 1995 GOTA 54,7%

Seailles 2004 GOTA 53,9%
Cognalternative
12 reviews

Cadenhead’s Dupont 13yo 44,8%

Calvados Giard 1980 42%

Cognalternative Session #1

Cognalternative Session #2

Cognalternative Session #4

Del Maguey Tobaziche LMDW “Cellar Book” 47%

Le Tribute Mezcal 45%

Old Malt Cask Speyside 1966/2008 48,8%

Port Charlotte 14yo Hidden Spirits 55,5%

Thompson Bros Brandy Early Landed Brandy 27yo

Transcontinental WP Jamaica 2013 57,18%

Waterford 1st Cuvée “Pilgrimage” 50%
TOP 3 / SPECIAL WEEK
11 reviews

At last, but not least

Ballon d’Or 2021: Hors d’Age favorite cognacs of the year

Ballon d’Or 2022

Good Morning Belgium! #1

Good Morning Belgium! #2

Good Morning Belgium! #2

Hors d’Age’s Top 3 – 2020

Interstellar Session #2

Special Borderies Week #1

Special Fins Bois Week #1

Special Petite Champagne Week #1


How am I doing my tasting notes ?
- I use the same set up for each tasting session. The same place (my living room), the same moment (between 5PM and 8PM) and the same environnement (No distraction sources as music or T.V, a little of fresh air and a good light).
- My tasting sessions are made of 3, 4 or 5 cognacs maximum. More would be too much for my taste buds and my nose. I use a full bottle of water all along the tasting session, because it’s important to drink water too !
- The choice of the cognacs for a tasting session is essential. As for other spirits like whisky or rum, you have to make a very wise set up to appreciate each product at its best. For example, it’s quite irrelevant to drink a cask strength cognac before another with a ABV of 40%. So I try to taste progressively and most of the time with a theme (100% Folle Blanche, only from one cru, from a same period, from a same product range…).
- Cognac needs time. Drinking a cognac only few seconds after pouring it is a bit disrespectful : Keep in mind that the brandy you’re about to taste had spent (most of the time) few decades in a cask. It’s a matter of respect but it’s also a matter of sense : cognac needs air to reveal its whole complexity.
- I aim to keep the same structure for each tasting notes. The aspect. The nose. The palate. The last notes. Sometimes the empty glass nose.
- If I’m not able to taste (if I have a cough, if I haven’t enough time,…) : I do not taste. It’s as simple as that. Moreover, I always check my nose and my palate with a standard V.S or V.S.O.P that I know by heart, and if I have any problem with this first tasting, I postpone the session.
- Producing a tasting notes is a work of honesty : I always describe what I feel and I never try to imagine some crazy aromas or scents to enhanced my tasting notes.
- It’s all about pleasure. Cognac is a passion for me. So when I’m writing my tasting notes, it’s not a chore. And I strongly believe that makes a big difference. If you’re not in a good mood to taste a cognac, you can’t fully appreciate it.
