Cognac frapin cuvee rabelais biography

Cognac Frapin’s fifth Cuvée Rabelais release is both a blend of some of the house’s oldest eaux-de-vie and a celebration of its historic link with 16th-century humanist and writer François Rabelais.

It seems apt to connect an illustrious maker of Grande Champagne Cognacs with a famed bon viveur – and one known for his earthy sense of humour.

Cognac frapin cuvee rabelais biography

Indeed the Rabelais link is proudly featured on every Frapin bottle, in the shape of the house emblem of a ‘plume’ or writer’s quill.

Rabelais’ mother was Anne-Catherine Frapin, but the year of his birth has always been debated; once thought to have been 1483, but now more likely to have been 1494, according to scholarly consensus.

That gave Frapin two opportunities to celebrate the great thinker’s 500th birthday, releasing the first and second Cuvée Rabelais in 1983 and 1994 respectively. As such, the name given to the latter – Age Inconnu – could be said to have a dou