Cognac Croizet is a cognac producer based in St Meme Les Carrieres in the Cognac Region of France. The company has two main offices in France and in Hong Kong.
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The Cognac region in France is divided into six districts, with the Grande Champagne district being the most prestigious as the course of grapes grown for cognac. Leon Croizet established his Cognac House in the Grande Champagne Region in 1805.
The brand is associated with successfully combating the Phylloxera disease, which eliminated all the vineyards in the Bordeaux region, thus greatly impoverishing wine and cognac production. However, in 1883, Leon's grandson - Benjamin Leon, replanted American vines, in place of the diseased French ones, and surrounded these by stone walls. This technique overcame the Phylloxera disease, for which B. Leon was honored with the Légion d'honneur by the French President in 1883.
Some of Croizet's bottles date back to the early 19th Century.
On 25 September 2011 a single bottle of Cognac Croizet 1858 was sold at auction in Shanghai, China for 1 million yuan (approx. $156,000). News article News article