Why Choose Cognac As Your Spirit?
For the last three centuries cognac has been almost universally recognised as the finest of all the hundreds of spirits distilled from grapes. So why should you choose cognac? For sheer depth and intensity, fruitiness, subtlety of bouquet, warmth and complexity of flavour and length of time for which the taste lingers on the palate, cognac remains incomparable. The ability to extract so much of the essential flavour from the grape is no accident. It involves possessing the right soil and climate and choosing the right grape varieties. Appropriate distillation methods must be used. Then, the inherent quality must be enhanced through long storage in the right kind and size of oak cask. And the storage conditions must be right – damp and dark.
There is no other spirit in the world that can compare with the sophistication, complexity and length of time it takes to produce a bottle of cognac. It’s flavours and supreme quality are the result of generations of skills handed down over the centuries. Unlike white spirits, cognac offers an incomparable range of natural flavours derived from a fruit grown in near perfect conditions and when, after decades, it is bottled it can become a most valuable prize. There is no other spirit that offers such complexity and interest in its many stages of production, no wonder cognac is known as The King of all Spirits.