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Traveling through the Wine and Spirits: On the way to Cognac
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The journey begins and ends in one of the most beautiful places on earth -- Paris, France. The city that is marked by the Eiffel Tower high into the clouds has enough to keep any traveler busy, but we are heading beyond this place. Just a three-hour ride on the TGV high speed train changes the scenery from the magic of the Louvre to the countryside of Angouleme. The first stop on a trip to the Cognac Region.Before we get to the discovery of Cognac (the spirit and the town), let me begin with the beginning. I have been a writer for as long as I can remember, working for magazines even while I was a kid in school. One of the things I did to push my career forward was to join the C.W. Post Pioneer staff. It was a wonderful experience then, but led to an even more exciting opportunity now. It was by chance that I met a fellow Pioneer editor Frank Coleman, who is now the Sr. Vice President of Marketing for Distilled Spirits Council of the United States (DISCUS) at a reunion. I was at a crossroads of looking for a writing subject to focus on and he was looking for another journalist to go on an upcoming trip.
My love of travel was born before I was as my father believed vacations were a necessity in life. In the early days, it was just car trips, but it later grew into adventures that led to the Caribbean, Europe and even Israel. I would continue to travel as much as I could over the years. As a long-time tennis writer there was always a tournament somewhere to go to and I did my best to build trips around them. It was on one such trip to Croatia that I stayed with a family who had their own vineyard. I found it fascinating to take the tour through the grapes just outside the door of where I was staying and remember photographing it endlessly.
I always loved visiting Napa and the wineries in my longtime Long Island home. I remember the smells as I strolled the Bacardi factory and the aromas at Busch Gardens. It had never occurred to me that I could combine my love of travel with a desire to learn more about spirits -- until that college reunion, when I was offered the opportunity to go to Cognac and learn about the drink and the town at the same time. Even then I didn't imagine that I would step off that high speed train into a new career. It took just a week of watching, drinking and photographing to know I found my niche as the Wine and Spirits Traveler.
And now we are back to the beginning. Join me as I re-visit the first of many journeys to come. On the first stop will be Chateau de L’Yeuse, the town of Cognac, and my introduction to the beverage of royalty that all can enjoy. In the days to follow, we will visit the grounds of Hennessy, Martell, Remy and Courvoisier.
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