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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.

How it appeared

There are at least two versions on how the cognac appeared. According to one of them the appearance of the drink was occasional. In the first part of 18th century during the War of the Spanish Succession the English fleet blocked the French coast. There were a lot of wine spirits in the local basements. And with the lapse of time people noticed that the taste and bouquet of the wine spirits became much better after its ripening in woods and started to make it on purpose. And the centre of it became the city of Cognac.

According to another theory cognac was known long before in Italy. Italians say that in the first part of 16 century during the celebration of wedding between Henry II and Catherine, the Italian ambassador gave the Italian brandy as the present besides other presents.

There is also the legend according to which Chevalier de la Croix leaving the military service started the wine distillation. At night he had the dream. He dreamed that the devil came to take his soul and to do that he dropped him into the boiling water, but it didn't work, so he did it again. When the man got up in the morning he decided to use the method of the double boiling in the wine production. The second boiling had to make the wine qualities after the first boiling better. Then he put the got wine into the oak woods and sent it to priests Renorville. And they drank the wine from the first wood at once and the second one was left for celebrations. And to everybody's surprise the wood was not full as volatilization took place but the drink got the new taste that was bright and seasoned. And in such way cognac was born.