Six base wine brandy cocktail

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Cognac (BRANDY) is a kind of spirits, the wine or distilled from fermented fruit, but to be placed after a considerable amount of time in cask aging.Brandy producing countries in the world, and the best wines made in France, it is the best French brandy, which cognac (COGNAC BRANDY) is particularly well-known world.

All Cognac is brandy

, but not all brandy is cognac.Cognac in Charente by the French distilled wine out of, and subject to legal restrictions and security, and other local brandy distilled from wine in the law that can not be called cognac.

Brandy (BRANDY) is a drinkable wine, is wine or fermented fruit juice distilled, aged in barrels until after a drink.For example: Cognac (COGNAC), Ya-Wen Yi (ARMAGNAC), Spanish brandy, the United States of brandy.KIRSCH or written KIRSCHWASSER (cherry brandy) CALVADOS or APPLE JACK (apple brandy), SLIVOVITZ (plum brandy), and other fruit brandy.

COGNAC, France CHARENTE

Cognac Cognac-COGNAC river city, is the production of cognac wine center.Such has been the world famous brandy, so that the French word COGNAC, almost the whole world to know.Even in China or Africa is no exception.

Cognac region is divided into six districts, the quality of the wine produced is also low, in sequence as follows:

1.GRANDE CHAMPAGNE
2.PETITE CHAMPAGNE Grande Champagne Petite Champagne
3.BORDERIES fringe
4.FINS BOIS plantation
5.BONS BOIS excellent plantation
6.BOIS ORDINAIRES general plantation

All brandy distillery, all letters to the respective quality, examples are as follows:

E behalf ESPECIAL (special)
F on behalf of FINE (good)
V on behalf of VERY (very good)
O on behalf of OLD (old)
S Representative SUPERIOR (the good)
P on behalf of PALE (light and old)
X on behalf of EXTRA (extra)

Reason why the quality of cognac brandy over the other, not only because of the particular distillation technique in the region, but also because the region's soil is good, and good weather, the grapes produced particularly good.

Cognac

level

French government has a very strict rule, wine is not at liberty to call themselves.Overall, the class of the following:

3-STAR Samsung Cognac: deposits of not less than two years
VSOP Cognac: deposits of not less than four years
NAPOLEON COGNAC:
XO reserves of not less than six years, dry Yi: reserves of more than eight years

Count how many years is good Cognac Chen? A smart drinker, said the best cognac and women about the age of about of twenty forty years old, wine experts agree.More than five years, all the wine in the water to evaporate.

Ya-Wen Yi ARMAGNAC after

cognac brandy is Ya-Wen Yi, is southeast of Bordeaux, France, where produced GERS.Used in grape and cognac, is produced in the ST.EMILION and FOLLE, BLANCHE's.

Cognac and Ya-Wen Yi

major point of difference is in the distillation procedure.The former first and second distillation is distillation carried out continuously, while the latter is carried out separately.Another point of difference, the former is LIMOUSIN OAK storage barrels made from the latter using a BLACK OAK made.

Some people like Ya-Wen Yi

not like to drink cognac, because the former than the latter more intense flavor.This is of course personal taste habit.

MARC

Mar brandy is made of such remaining grape wine, distilled from.In France, said that such liquor EAU DE VIE DE MARC, so this wine is named foreign MARC, but the last letter is not pronounced, are produced throughout France, but BURGUNDY (Burgundy) produced the best.It is full of straw and wood flavors, often appreciated by wine connoisseur.

The use of brandy

Brandy in addition to the role has been recognized as a health care, all are by the fruit wine (WIN, mainly referring to a wine) distillation, and therefore can act as wine after dinner.Also add the soda water, drink any leisure time.Riga some brandy in the coffee better.

Because Brandy has rich flavor, making sweets, puddings, cakes and ice cream, and a little can improve the taste, all the brandy can be adjusted for a variety of mixed drinks.