"I don't drink cognac and I didn't know the Charente region, so it was a new world to me," she says. Founded in 1828, Courvoisier is all about celebrating festive moments. Popular with European ...

Some 500-600 staff in cognac's home Charente region in southwestern France were protesting at an experimental plan to export the drink in vats, rather than bottles, which will be subject to ...

The latest ruling made no judgment on compensation. Mr Francois, a cereal farmer from the Charente region in south-west France, argued he had to stop work. Medical tests found chlorobenzene in his ...