Meeting the Master Distiller of a renowned European spirits house is an experience that’s almost always illuminating. Yet it’s not every day one gets the opportunity to speak with a spirit maker whose work is the literal reason for an entire brand’s existence.
So it is with François Thibault — Cellar Master for Grey Goose.
A winemaker by profession, who received the official title of Maître de Chai in 1992, it’s an irrefutable fact that without Thibault, the brand as we…

