by Jay Erisman, EQ Wine and Spirits Manager

I departed for France on Sunday, March 18. Direct flights like the one I had from CVG to Paris are overnight, so I arrived in Paris at 8:30 am. The plan was to go straight to Cognac—no rainy Parisian afternoons spent adjusting to jet lag, oh no, it was straight for the stills on this trip. I took a TGV (train grande vitesse, one of which recently set the world record for fastest train on rails) to Angoulème, and then a smaller and slower train to Cognac. These trains run like fine clockwork, with no waiting on the tarmac or “departing the gate just to say we did” whatsoever.

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