The bone chilling mist that blankets the Charente River makes the perfect setting for sampling the most famous product of this medieval city. For most people, Cognac is not a city but a synonym for ...

At the Hennessy headquarters in Cognac, France there is a room where the magic literally happens. With its soaring ceilings and massive over-sized windows this stately space oozes importance. Lining ...

Fueled by a growing middle class with a voracious appetite for aspirational products, Asia, including developing markets like Vietnam and the Philippines, is beginning to develop a taste for cognac.

Did you know that the double distillation method used in Cognac production, notably by Rémy Martin, is linked to a legend involving the Devil and a 16th-century French nobleman's guilty conscience?

Perhaps it’s strange to dedicate a day on the American calendar to a foreign spirit, but then again, almost all of the Cognac produced in France is exported and enjoyed elsewhere in the world. In fact ...

If you ask a certain type of person over a certain sort of age, you’ll be regaled with a litany of traditions that the younger generation are brutally killing off. We have murdered the music festival, ...

The drink that we know today as Cognac started off as a very different entity. Whether it was an effort to concentrate wine for ease of transport (and protecting against spoilage) or a way to preserve ...

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