What Are You Drinking? Ep.3 “Holiday Edition”
What are you drinking these holidays I’m drinking brandy so we have two different type of randies today we have some cognac we have some armanac what is the difference they are both made in France they are both made 100% out of grapes the difference is the region so we have
Armanac from the south of France in gascon we have conac north of um Bordeaux in the region of charente uh when it comes to cognac it’s a double destillation and a pot steel when it comes to armanac we have 95% of the time a continuous column um destillation so the alcohol Rises a
Little of course so in this in both cases actually we have uh over 47% of alcohol when it comes to coac it’s a little more common to find 40% 42 maybe nowadays we see some higher ones but that’s not the traditional way uh we see some big houses when it comes to conac
Like for example Martel or Hine or Hennessy in this case is a combination of many different Crews it’s a VSOP very special or very Superior old pale aged for a minimum of four years always French Oak uh then we have for example a single cast in this case is a single
Crew which is all coming from border very floral a lot of Honey notes and then we have houses like for example the Lan in this case they do not produce but they are blenders so they buy from different producers all in the region of uh ground champagne in this case is age
For at least 35 years they use reuse cat which allows for longevity in their cognacs uh in the case of the armanac they are both actually being released by Francis D Ros but from two different small producers so one is the Dom M the
Maron in this case is a 24 years old the Ste in 1989 and then we have a 15 years soul from 1992 both amazing with a lot of character and in the the older one has a little more like leather tobacco cocoa spice but the younger one has a lot of
Funkiness in a good way right it has that spice that Oak uh coming through if you’re a whiskey Drinker I highly recommend try some armanac well I hope this give you some cool ideas to try Brandy in these holidays happy holidays
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