Two glasses of Cognac and a bottle on a wooden table - Fcafotodigital/Getty Images Ever wondered if Cognac and brandy are the same thing? Or why one bottle can feel like it demands a butler, while ...

For me, cognac and brandy are just the sippers I saw my grandparents enjoying after a hearty family meal, and the differences between them seemed minuscule or perhaps unimportant. But actually, the ...

Generally speaking, brandy and cognac are often lumped together. This is understandable, given the similarities between the two spirits, but their differences are worth making note of. Depending on ...

You can’t deny the greatness of a snifter of good brandy this time of year. The oak-aged juice has a lot of ties to well-aged whiskey while still feeling light (for the most part). The wine-based ...

Think that all brandy is Cognac? Or that all brandy is French, made from grapes and sipped from snifters? Far from it. According to the latest statistics from DISCUS (the Distilled Spirits Council of ...

Armenian brandy producers say they're unsure exactly how to market their award-winning spirits that are known to most consumers as “cognac” as an EU agreement banning use of that word comes into force ...

This year’s Brandy Spirit Trophies honors the finest brandies on earth, from Cognac’s to Chile and Azerbaijan’s—each a showcase of mastery, excellence and tradition. From the rolling hills of Cognac ...

Officials with Wollersheim Winery & Distillery announced Thursday the release of Coquard Reserve Brandy, a limited batch cognac-style brandy that has been aged for five years in Wisconsin Oak barrels.

In our new Ask the Expert series, Paste readers chime in with some of their most pressing booze concerns, and we do our best to help you make sense of it all. Resident expert Jake Emen has spent years ...

Victor Hugo called cognac the "liquor of the gods." It's become known as a symbol of French luxury, the best brandy money can buy—because, yes, cognac is a brandy. But just as not all wine is ...