Maison Ferrand Distillery is best known for its Cognac. Due to strict regulations imposed by the Appellation d’Origine Contrôlée, in a revelation that during the offseason, when they legally couldn’t distil Cognac, they realised they could distil gin! In 1995, the government finally relented, and in July 1996 at Château de Bonbonnet, Citadelle gin was born, with the aim of creating summer in a glass.