D’USSÉ VSOP Cognac DUSSE ABV: 40% Average Price: $60 The Brandy: This is Jay-Z’s signature brand. The juice in the bottle goes way back to Baron Otard from the famed Château de Cognac. The ...

Armenian brandy producers are required to stop naming their drink "cognac" by 2032 in return for a 3 million euro ($3.5 million) payout as part of a deal with the EU passed in Yerevan on June 10.

Cognac just has to be from a specific region of France with specific requirements, brandy is a little looser and comes from every corner of the world. Both can be pretty spectacular when handled well.

Like French Cognac, Saribekyan explained, Armenian brandy starts with grapes—mostly endemic varieties with striking names like garan dmak, kangun voskehat (literally “golden berry”).

Brandy & Cognac Brandy is a spirit made from distilled wine, usually served as an after-dinner drink or used in flambé dishes—like Jacques Pepin's recipe for classic Crepes Suzette.

Cognac is the only brandy that is distilled twice. An Alembic still constructed of copper is used. These onion-shaped stills, burnished and gleeming, are regional fixtures.

China on Friday imposed anti-dumping duties on European brandy, most notably cognac produced in France, as trade tensions between Beijing and United States allies continue to rise. Chinese authorities ...

Cognac is the perfect winter drink. We all have the images of an aristocratic gentleman like Winston Churchill drinking from a snifter of brandy as he sits in his library with a warm fire burning ...