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Catching up with Cognac

Michelle Locke
FeaturesSpiritsWine Spotlight
4 min read
You know you’re going old school when your guide opens a cellar door in Cognac and a bat comes flying at you. True story. And don’t get me started on the spiders. But while there’s beaucoup de history, heritage and cobwebby verisimilitude to be found in the home of France’s premium brown Read More

Hardy VSOP Cognac

David Honig
Wine Reviews
1 min read
Hardy ages its V.S.O.P. (Very Special Old Pale) Cognac for 8 years, twice the minimum permitted under French law. The eaux-de-vie comes from Grande Champagne and Petite Champagne, the Cognac region's two finest crus. Packaging is very fine for the VSOP level, and pricing very reasonable.  The rich nose shows butter, Read More

Hardy VSOP Cognac

David Honig
Wine Reviews
1 min read
Hardy ages its V.S.O.P. (Very Special Old Pale) Cognac for 8 years, twice the minimum permitted under French law. The eaux-de-vie comes from Grande Champagne and Petite Champagne, the Cognac region's two finest crus. Packaging is very fine for the VSOP level, and pricing very reasonable.  The rich nose shows butter, Read More

Cognac chills out

Michelle Locke
FeaturesSpirits
4 min read
Producers of the French digestif are blending in with the cocktail crowd Flanked by barrels of gently slumbering brandy, Jerome Royer is talking about cognac — his passion and his business — with all the gallant gestures and mustachioed enthusiasm of a Frenchman straight out of Central Casting. But what he has Read More