There's still room to expand the Pierre Ferrand brand, but its capacity to make GrandeChampagnecognac tops out at double current sales of around 16, 000 cases a year.
Grapes from five of the six authorized zones in the Cognac region are represented: GrandeChampagne, Petite Champagne (in this case champagne means the chalkiness of the soil and not the sparkling wine region), Fins Bois, Bon Bois and Borderies.
Ferrand, whom they bought out, was located in GrandeChampagne, the most prestigious of the six cognac districts. (Champagne refers to chalky soil, also found where the sparkling wine of the same name is made.) That lucky happenstance gave Andreu and Gabriel the idea of creating a single-district cognac, similar to the single-malt Scotch brands like Macallan and Laphroaig that revitalized the Scotch business in the 1980s.