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- The world offers us so many drinks and spirits. Sometimes it is difficult to decide what cognac is the best and what the favourite one is. But when you taste the cognac it will probably turn into your favourite one and if not the favourite then into one of the favourite.
- Cognac is aroma spirits of the golden and yellow colours or of the bright brown colour that is made of the cognac alcohol got in the result of double sublimation of white grapes wines with the further ripening in oak woods.
- If you ask what is the difference between brandy and cognac it is easy to answer it. The difference is the territory where the drink is produced. The spirits produced in Cognac region in France is called cognac. And the rest of the world companies that use the same manufacturing technique make brandy and not cognac.
- There are a lot of traditions connected with cognac drinking. But it is not necessary to turn the cognac drinking into the problem. First of all it is necessary to like the taste of cognac and to enjoy it. After all it is the main purpose of cognac.
- The healing effect of cognac was proven on practice. Doctors say that cognac is good for health and its taking won’t be harmful for the person’s health.
Drinking the cognac
Cognac together with wine is one of the most spread spirits in the whole world. That is why there are certain traditions of their drinking.
It is difficult to say about the traditions of cognac drinking as everything changes in the world. Till nowadays the cognac glass was considered to be the sniffer that is the rounded glass with narrow top and big cup. People held this glass warming the cognac with the hand, shook the glass feeling the smell of the drink and enjoying its colour. But time changes so do the glasses. Nowadays the traditional glass is the tulip. People hold this glass by stem as wine glass. Such glass allows the drink to breathe.
According to French tradition, cognac can accompany so called "three C" that are Coffee, Chocolate and Cigars. Americans changed this tradition taking brandy as the drink with a snack. They also started to mix it with the tonic.
In Russia people got used to drink cognac from small glasses in one sip and eat the lemon with cognac. According to legend the Russian king Nikolay I tried the French cognac but it seemed to be very strong and he ate the lemon to kill the taste. And such combination made rather interesting taste and the king repeated the procedure several times. Since then Russians drink the cognac eating the lemon.
Every country has formed its own traditions of cognac drinking. And every country chooses the glass that corresponds to its purposes. After all sometimes the ordinary person is not able to appreciate the taste of real cognac and the whole bouquet it gives. While only gourmets know what qualities the cognac should have and what shouldn't.