Cognac maj be distilled from grapes rather than grain, but its similarities to whisky are hard to ignore. Like whisky, its popularity is booming and Cognac exports to North America jumped 14.2 percent in volume last year. Increasingly, Cognac makers are also expanding the French brandy’s stylistic boundaries. They’ve taken a page from the whisky playbook, making Cognacs with special finishes and adding numerical age statements. Small producers are releasing their own Cognac labels alongside the large, historic Cognac houses.
Cognac’s appellation of origin regulates everything, from which grapes can be used and where they’re grown to how they’re vinified,...
Läs mer http://whiskyadvocate.com/whisky-lovers-guide-to-cognac/
