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• The Phantom Heist : Fake Trucks, Forged Papers, and the Looting of Cognac

  15 mai, par Max
  Inside the brazen supply chain fraud targeting France's most storied spirit trade On the morning of November 20, 2025, a truck pulled up to the loading dock of Maison Peyrat in Cognac, Charente. The driver was in his thirties and described by witnesses as “very convincing.” He had paperwork. Not (…)

• The Cognac Butler

  14 mai, par Max
  From August 2023 to April 2025, Cognac-Expert.com operated one of the most specialised AI assistants in the spirits world: The Cognac Butler. This is the story of why we built it, what it could do, and what the query archive taught us about how people actually think about cognac. What Was The (…)

• If Cognac Was A Movie (Cannes Festival 2026 Edition)

  13 mai, par Max
  The Cognac Film Festival: 13 Films the Cognac World Would Make Every great cognac house has a story worth telling on screen. A founder who crossed an ocean. A family split between tradition and ambition. A barrel hunter who found something he was never meant to find. A Norwegian who ended up in (…)