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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.

To make the cognac

Cognac is spirits got in the result of double distillation of the white wine with the further ripening in woods. The cognac production can be compared with arts. The whole process if cognac making passes through several stages that are controlled severely. And these stages are collecting the grapes, its pressing, distillation, ripening and mixing.

The vine is cultivated carefully at the distance of 3 meters from one plant to another so that every bush could get the sun energy. The harvest is collected once a year – in the beginning of October. Some vine owners collect the harvest manually others use the special equipment to accelerate the process. The collected grapes are pressed at once in horizontal traditional presses. And they add sugar to the got juice. After three weeks the young white wine is sent for distillation where it goes through two stages of boiling in the result of which the cognac spirits is got.

And then the cognac spirits is put to woods and passes through ripening in rooms where the constant temperature is held that makes 15°. Cognac may pass here from two to fifty years. During this period cognac looses its strong alcoholic concentration and gets the amber yellow colour from woods as well as its taste. The substances got by the wine from the oak enter the cognac bouquet and make the special and unique taste.

The cognac is conserved in woods made of oak. It is the obligatory condition to get the cognac of good quality and of the beautiful bright colour. If the cognac passes a lot of time in oak woods, it gets more saturated colour.