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From Love and Art

It’s only in the telling that we can truly do justice to a story. And no more so than with the story of the Maze and Churchill families. It should come as no surprise that the destiny of these two families has been woven tightly together by the strands of history – after all, destiny has a way of surpassing the limits of the human imagination.

Two great men meet in a time of war. And at that moment, as we have hinted, there is a spark of mutual recognition, of common ground and a shared sensibility. It was in this way that Jeanne’s grandfather, Paul Maze, met Winston Churchill in the trenches of the Western Front, taught him to paint, and that the pair of them became friends – a friendship that was to last a lifetime. And then many years later, even though fate could have brought them together many times in the years leading up to it, Jeanne eventually crosses paths with Robert – the grandson of Charles Spencer-Churchill, the 9th Duke of Marlborough and a beloved cousin of Winston Churchill.

It seems incredible that the vagaries of history can intertwine two lives in such fascinating circumstances as though Jeanne and Robert’s paths were destined to converge before they even knew each other. Knowing themselves from the crowd, and seeing elements of one another in their pasts, allowed Jeanne and Robert to build their future together. After moving to France and the family estate bought by Jeanne’s father, Etienne Maze, the couple have created an enduring family legacy together with their sons Jack and Ivor.

Domaine Maze Churchill

Even the family estate in which Jeanne and Robert live and work benefits from a remarkable twist of fate – located, as it is, in the Borderies – Cognac’s smallest and, in many ways, most distinctive appellation. And so Jeanne, painter and artist like her grandfather Paul, and Robert, who had inherited the Churchill family’s love of fine cognac, knew how to create something unique onto which they imposed their individual family stamps.
History

A new tomorrow

With the help of the second generation, the Maze Churchill family work everyday to protect the integrity of their family dynasty, while infusing it with a contemporary energy. And so today the art of Jeanne and Paul Maze comes to life amid richly coloured rows of vines that extend into the horizon beneath the clear skies of France; and the leadership qualities of the Churchill family become the guiding light to an entrepreneurial project that will reveal in time five releases, precious bottles of cognac to bind together history, art, and people – as only love for something or someone can do.
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