A Cognac House, located in Chermignac in the heart of this deep Saintonge, not far from Saintes, a Roman city with limestone soils where the Romans planted their first vines in Gaulle at the very beginning of our era. Saintes could have become the capital of cognac but it had to give way to its rival Cognac which later gave its name at the end of the 19th century to the most famous of France's eaux-de-vie.

The Vallein-Tercinier house was founded in 1850, it is still managed today by a 5th generation bearing the same name.