How Brandy is Made? | Brandy Types | Top Brands | How to serve?

What is Brandy ?
Brandy comes from Distillation of fermented Grape juice and matured in Oak cask.
Brandy gets colour and additional aroma and flavour from the Oak cask barrels.
Other fruit brandies are made from apples, peaches,strawberries and raspberries
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The History of Brandy
Brandy is the oldest and important Fruit spirits.
The word Brandy comes from the Dutch word Brandewijin.
Brandewijin means Burnt Wine.
In 16th century Dutch traders introduce to French and Spanish people.
Dutch traders shows them.how to Burnt or boil wine turns to brandy through Distillation process.
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The Origin of Brandy
The origin of Brandy can be traced back to the expanding Moslem Mediterranean states in 7th and 8th centuries.
Arab alchemists experimented with distilling grapes and other fruits in order to make medicinal spirits.
This knowledge and techniques soon spread beyond the border of Islam.
Slowly it travels to Spain Ireland and france where the monks start to use Brandy as a medicine in 8th century.
Cognac
Cognac comes from the charentes district of france.
The climate is Maritime and the best soil is chalk.
Fine champagne is the name of cognac blended from petite and Grande champagne regions in cognac.
The grapes used to make Cognac are
Ugni Blanc
Folle blanche
Colombard
The wine from cognac is distilled twice in pot still.
The young brandy is put into oak cask and when matured it is blended.
Classification of Cognac
1. V S / V S P which means brandy must be matured in oak cask for minimum of 2 years and Maximum 6 years
2. V S O P which means brandy must be matured in oak cask for minimum of 4 years and maximum 15 years
3. X O which means brandy must be matured in oak cask for minimum of 6 years and maximum 20 years
V stands for Very
S stands for Superior
O stands for Old
P Stands for pale
X stands for Extra
Popular Brands are
Hennessy
Remy Martin
Martell
Courvoisier
Armagnac
Armagnac is the worlds second best brandy producer next to cognac.
Armagnac is produced in south east and inland from Bordeaux.
Being Inland the climate is hotter and here the finest soil is Sand.
The main grape variety used in the armagnac production are Ugni Blanc
Folle Blanche
Colombard
and
Boca Blanc also called Boca A22
Armagnac wines are distilled and then spirits are matured in local made black oak cask.
Bas Armagnac region produces the finest quality of armagnac brandy.
Armagnac brandies are fully flavoured and deeper in colour.
Popular Armagnac Brands are
Castonon
Prince de Cabot
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Fruit Brandies
Brandy made from fruits expect grapes are called Fruit brandies.
In france these brandies are called U De Ve
followd by the name of the fruit.
Apple brandies is well known example for fruit brandy.
It is called as Calvados.
Calvados production method is same as Cognac and matured in Oak cask for 2 to 6 years.
Pomace Brandy
Brandy made from the waste or used wine grapes, skins, pulps, stems are called as pomace brandy.
Italian grappa are the best know example for pomace brandy.
pomace brandies are colourless due to patten still Distillation.
How to serve Brandy Proper way ?
The finest, oldest brandies should not be mixed.
Young brandies mix reasonably well with soda.
In east part of France, Brandy is mixed with plenty of iced water and consumed in theirs denatured form with food.
How to serve Cognac professional way?
Fine cognac should be drunk just as it comes(Neat), without mixer or Ice.
It is Traditionally served in brandy ballon glasses that allow room for swirling.
Brandies also encouraged by gentle warming of the glass in hand.
The aromas are better Appreciated by warming the glass.

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