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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.

What is it?

We often hear the word "cognac" and we got used to associate it with the certain drink. Let's consider this problem attentively.

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 woods.

First people started to make cognac in the town of Cognac situated in France. And thanks to this town the drink got its name. To spread and to form the authority of the new drink, the French King adapted the certain decree. According to the world laws on the controlled denominations the cognac may be named the drink that was created on base of spirits got in France. And the spirits of other countries made of alcohol in the result of wine distillation can be named cognac only in reference with the local sale and in other cases it is named brandy.

This law is obligatory in Europe and all companies that release their products (besides France) and name it cognac are fined.

So the cognac is in fact cognac and brandy. Cognac is used for the spirits produced in France and Brandy for the spirits made in different other countries of Europe with the usage of manufacturing techniques.

But not every cognac made in France is really cognac. Only cognac made in the certain region of France called Charente is real cognac. The rest are also brandy. The special qualities of cognac made in Charante are conditional on the rich calcium concentration in the local soil.