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Unicognac, coöperative in Saint-Germain-de-Lusignan

creation date: 2013; last update 2024

• 1959 Under the patronage of Jules Gautret (1847), Unicognac is founded. It emerges from Jules Gautret’s company and the Union des Coopératives de Charente-Maritime.
• 2015 Acquisition of AE Dor. AE Dor becomes an independent subsidiary and continues to be managed by Pierre Antoine Rivière.
• Since the 2000s there is a close cooperation with Charentes-Alliance, in which more than 2,500 winemakers participate. Through cooperation, they try to keep production and marketing costs down, create better storage facilities with an extensive ‘paradise’ and maintain a large stock of cognac assemblages.
• 2015: The partnership with Charentes-Alliance has at some point turned into an acquisition, in which Unicognac becomes a subsidiary.
• December 2015, Charentes-Alliance and Coréa Poitou-Charentes merged to become Océalia. Unicognac and AE Dor remain relatively independent subsidiaries.
• 2017 The Unicognac name is replaced by Jules Gautret (caves).

Until about 20 years ago, Unicognac had very many brands operating, but that has now been reduced to four: Ansac, Jules Gautret, Lauriac, Roi des Rois.

Range Ansac: XXX, VSOP, Napoléon, Napoléon XO.
Range Jules Gautret: XXX, VSOP, Fine Champagne, Napoléon, Grande Champagne, Hors d’Age.

Brands owned by Unicognac or under which they have sold cognac in the past:

•      Allessac ?
•           André Dorbert
•      D’Anglar
•      Ansac
•      Bergeon
•      Berjon
•           Bonroy
•           Bon Roy
•           Carte Royal
•           Chastagne?
•           Coflam?
•           Cognac Union
•           Coronation
•           Count de Gautret
•           De la Cour
•           Darnac
•           Delignac
•           Delsay
•           Didonne
•           André Dorbert
•           De Forsac
•           Gautret
•           Gaujon, Jules
•           De Lacour
•           Lauriac
•           Marsat
•      Montigny
•      Ona
•           Orphi
•           Prince de Didonne
•           Régence
•           Roi des Rois (through Dontrac?)
•           André Simon
•           Tradition & Qualité
•           Union
•           Valleroy
•           Vice-Roi
•           Vosges         

http://www.unicognac.com/ (invalid link)
Address: 51 Route de Saint-Genis, Z.I. de Saint-Germain-de-Lusignan, 17500 Saint-Germain-de-Lusignan. Telephone: 0546 481099. (Visit by appointment only.)