Mention Cognac and it likely conjures up an image of elegant men in smoking jackets: Their cigars send foul odors through the air in dark paneled rooms with dim lighting while they slowly sip drinks ...

Floral cocktails always have a place on romantic occasions. This elderflower cocktail, made with splashes of aged rum and cognac is at once flirty and potent, a combination that can take date night ...

If you love brandy, then a trip to Cognac should be on your bucket list. Here's our guide on which hotel to base yourself at, ...

If you have even a passing familiarity with the famous boulevard in Paris, I suspect I know what’s happening in your brain when you hear its name. The cultural idea of France is already imbued with ...

Brandy is any distilled spirit made from fermented fruit juice. Cognac is a specific type of barrel-aged brandy made in the Cognac region of France. Brandy is often sipped neat as an after-dinner ...

A mulled white wine made with coriander, fennel and elderflower liqueur, a punchy nonalcoholic mulled cider, and mulled beer fortified with Cognac will make the season bright. By Rebekah Peppler Cold ...

This article was produced by National Geographic Traveller (UK). It’s strange to be surrounded by vines, flame-coloured and curling as autumn progresses, but sampling seemingly everything except wine.

Rancho Santa Fe’s Cecile Giraud grew up in the town of Bourges, France, a tiny place with a lot of tradition. One treasured childhood memory is of her grandfather Hugo, drinking his cognac during ...