Nestled in the center of Cognac, Château Bisquit was built at the end of the 19th century. … The House of Bisquit Cognacs was founded in 1819 in the heart of France from the spirit of one man: Alexandre Bisquit, the house of Bisquit, with its home at the Château de Lignères by the banks of the Charente River, had a long-standing family tradition until the house was sold to Pernod Ricard in 1966. Said to have been among the favorite Cognacs of Winston Churchill and King George IV, it is popular in the Anglo-Saxon countries and hence was bought by the South African group Distell in 2009