Little Charente

Little Charente

Little Charente

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The Charente distillation unit consists of a distillation pot, a reflux flask, a feed preheater, a coil condenser, and a spirit collection vessel. The entire pot body is meticulously crafted from pure red copper, a material chosen for several key advantages: first, copper boasts excellent thermal conductivity; second, it serves as a catalyst for esterification reactions; third, it exhibits outstanding resistance to corrosion by the acidity of the raw spirit; and fourth, copper can facilitate the formation of insoluble copper salts from butyric acid, acetic acid, lauric acid, and other compounds, causing these acids to precipitate out and thereby eliminating their off-flavors. The pot body is designed in a round-kettle configuration with an inward-curving bottom to ensure complete drainage of residual liquid, while the top is shaped like a dome and connected to the reflux flask to prevent “boiling over” during distillation and to allow partial reflux of the distillate vapor, thus achieving a fractional distillation effect.
In the process of winemaking, producing high-quality brandy is inseparable from the distillation apparatus; even with excellent wine, without a superior still, fine brandy cannot be distilled. The truly mature brandy distiller is the “Charentais” still, crafted entirely from pure copper.
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