Cognac Gautier has just released its XO Gold & Blue and Tradition Rare expressions. Once upon a time Gautier was held in very high regard ...

Many of us travel to France in the summer holidays and diligently search out local products which are unique to the area we are visiting ...

Very much as expected, the grape harvest in 2015 is producing one of the best and biggest quantities of distilled spirit ever.  It looks like ...

According to the regulatory body representing Armagnac producers, the BNIA (Bureau National Interprofessionnel l’Armagnac), Armagnac distillation started on 8 October, the earliest date in living ...

Directed by Robert Rodriguez, the appropriately named ‘100 Years’ envisages what Earth will be like a century from now.  The film was inspired by the ...

The New Year is traditionally the time to consider all things new - like the latest vintage from Hermitage Cognacs. It is 50 years since ...

By the turn of the 19th Century, Ugni Blanc had replaced Folle Blanch and Colombard as the most widely used grape for producing Cognac. Grafted ...

Brandy has been the traditional spirit of Christmas since the sixteenth century and was immortalised by Dickens in Mrs Cratchit’s Christmas pudding, “blazing in half ...

Cognac Distillation - The Wine Reduction In the 16th and 17th centuries, the brandies produced in the Charente were reduced by distillation as this made them ...

The cognac distillation process is the most technical part of making the golden nectar. It is the stage where the wine is reduced to a ...