Sazerac de Forge & Fils
The 18th-century cognac house that gave the Sazerac name to a cocktail, a company — and now, once again, to cognac.
The name before the name.
Bernard Sazerac de Forge founded his cognac house in 1782, in the golden age of the spirit. Its cognacs crossed the Atlantic to New Orleans, where they poured the drink that took the family's name — the Sazerac, among the first true American cocktails — and in time lent that name to the modern Sazerac Company itself. The house did not survive the century: when the phylloxera blight devastated the region's vines in the late 1800s, Sazerac de Forge fell silent.
It stayed silent for over a hundred years. In 2019 the Sazerac Company returned to Cognac and acquired the Domaine Sazerac de Segonzac — estate vineyards in Grande Champagne, the region's premier cru — and set the family name back over the door.
Under Cellar Master Denis Lahouratate, the revived house works in very small quantities from old and rare native grape varieties, its releases running from the flagship XO to single-vintage Grande Champagne and a fifty-year-old drawn from casks sealed in wax half a century ago. A house twice born, with the patience to prove it.
A selection of the expressions within reach under this marque. Each is offered by allocation; explore any to see it in full.
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