And unlike its cheap, nasty brandy competitors, cognac does have a reputation to keep up. |
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Further south the heady brew is cognac, aged in oak casks and sought out by connoisseurs around the world. |
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The waiter pours a glass of cognac, lights it, swills the flaming liquid around the glass, then tips it out. |
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As the sun was sinking below the horizon, we relaxed by the pool, sipping cognac and snoozing as the cockerels strutted about on the lawn nearby. |
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The smell is of a fine cognac, the taste is of a fine wine and the finish is elegantly long, refined and smooth. |
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Without following these and other strict laws, the resulting spirit may not be called cognac. |
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Distillation of the wine is carried out in proper copper pot stills, the sort used for cognac. |
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The lobster bisque was dark and rich, while the cognac gave it an added edge, and it set the palate tingling. |
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Tequila, like champagne or cognac, is an appellation that must conform to specific standards. |
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The number of people who finish the evening off with an amaretto, sambuca, cognac, or brandy is on the decline, he says. |
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Vintner receipts show he bought dozens of bottles of cognac and a similar amount of whisky. |
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Heaven Hill markets more than 50 labels of bourbon, rye, scotch, vodka, gin, tequila, rum, cognac, wines and cordials. |
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Add the arrowroot, cognac, butter, and heavy cream, whisk to combine, and simmer until warmed through. |
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It is through small bribes of chocolate, coffee, cognac and the like that patients are able to assure themselves of quality care. |
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This does not have the complexity of great cognac, but it will hit the spot for most palates. |
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Although wine, beer, cognac, and champagne are popular, vodka is the most common drink. |
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This is one of the primary reasons why extended aging is not as important to tequila as it might be to bourbon or cognac. |
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Some cognac with a nutty finish may be leisurely consumed at her Watergate apartment. |
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The food is accompanied by copious amounts of vodka, cognac, wine, and beer. |
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She had given a party the previous night and drank several glasses of vodka punch, cognac, wine and beer. |
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After this surprising display of gratitude he took his guests into the house and treated them to a couple of stiff hookers of excellent cognac. |
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I got a little boy to go for a bottle of cognac but he came back and said he could only get grappa. |
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This is a mistelle, a sort of wine made from unfermented grape juice and cognac. |
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At the current rate of shrinkage, blended Scotch may lose its spot to cognac and brandy within a few years. |
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Vorosmarty is home to the city's most famous confectionery shop, Gerbeaud patisserie, where the cognac cherry bonbon was invented. |
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You can drop a blob of whipped cream to enhance the taste and add a small dash of the cognac to it. |
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A table at the bottom compared the calorie content of 100 ml of beer with the same amount of gin, rum, whisky, cognac and wine. |
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It helps to have lots of vodka, gin, scotch, brandy, and cognac for all to swill down. |
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I can clearly see the market opening beyond cognac and scotch whisky, possibly to vodka and gin. |
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And perhaps his new aides could ensure there's a bottle of cognac to hand for an early morning snifter just to steady the nerves. |
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Our cocktail sauce is carefully balanced with a dash of tomato and perked up with just the right amount of cognac. |
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More than once I have been offered cognac and said no, only to be countermanded by the stranger sitting next to me that actually, yes, the lady will have a glass of cognac. |
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Suede in cognac or blonde adds the look of luxury to a blazer or skirt, and is the leather of choice for accessories or detailing, such as criss-cross lacing on blouses. |
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Before adding the wine, pour in the cognac and boil away until almost completely reduced. |
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Marie Brizard is a public company quoted on the French Stock Exchange and is world renowned for its tradition of quality wines, liquors, cognac, cocktails and cordials. |
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Extra strong ales and lagers, bock beer, Adam bier, and barley wine are the brandy, cognac, and port equivalents of the beer world, capable of Armagnac status on the tongue. |
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The geographical indication cognac will therefore have to coexist with the use of the generic term conhaque. |
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We are not talking about Churchill and Roosevelt settling the hash over cigars and cognac. |
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These are wild and remote lands where the Irish once exchanged sardines for French cognac. |
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Group free cash flow deteriorated, due in particular to the purchase of eaux-de-vie to cope with the demand for cognac. |
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Now, it's almost routine to find single malts matured in used casks which once held cognac, fino sherry, Madeira, Malaga, Bordeaux and other wines and spirits. |
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He also smokes copious amounts of weed mooched off his friends and makes miracles by turning water into cognac. |
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Brandy, cognac and liqueurs were also available on adjoining tables. |
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Gowns in black, burnished orange, cognac and pale pink easily communicate the rock princess vibe, especially when combined with silk taffeta, velvets and plush taffetas. |
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During his stay at an Italian hospital he charmed nurses and bribed porters into bringing him a steady stream of cognac, Cinzano vermouth, Marsala and Chianti. |
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Drugs, of course, have replaced alcohol as the unforgivable sin, and to be found smoking cannabis is considered every bit as serious a crime as downing vintage cognac. |
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Parties spilled onto streets, with all-night bands, nothing on tap but XO cognac and champagne. |
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Drank too much wine, too much whiskey, too much heady Norwegian cognac. |
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In the glow of their log fire, fortified by coffee and cognac, I deliberately steered the conversation towards the peccadilloes of awkward neighbours. |
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I was given a heavy chef's knife to split it down the middle, before preparing a mixture of shallots, tomatoes, cheese, wine and cognac for the grill. |
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Their fermentation and distillation process is more akin to the production of cognac, with French rather than American oak used for its maturation. |
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Others around the room talk over cognac or whiskey in whispered voices. |
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It's love at first sight for some, because ochre yellows look especially handsome with solid wood furniture and flooring, especially in shades of cognac and mahogany. |
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It also enhanced its prestige line with the launch of Paradis Impérial, a cognac with incomparable finesse set in a crystal and gold carafe created by the young designer Stéphanie Ballini. |
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Along with the espresso, out came the cognac and palinka, to pour into the espresso or have along with it. |
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Meant to be savored like a fine cognac or port, Utopias is a rich, uncarbonated extreme beer known for its extraordinary flavor profile. |
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This museum exhibition takes the visitor through the history of distillation equipment from the early cognac alembic to the modern column still then to the Saint James cellar of rare vintage rum. |
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Changes in inventories increased cash requirements by 351 million euros, due to the increase in business volumes and the replenishment of distilled alcohol inventories for cognac and wines for champagne. |
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Would we have said: for the sake of consumer information, it is also possible to introduce onto the market cognac made from potatoes or whiskey made from grapes? |
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The collection emerged from the ruins of the cognac industry as it switched from the hands of family trading houses to the iron rule of wine and spirits multinationals. |
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Furthermore, the term cognac cannot be used as a generic name. |
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Hand the barman at Movida £35,000 and he would mix up a a shot of Louis XII cognac, some Cristal Rose, a few flakes of edible gold leaf and at the bottom of the glass a diamond ring. |
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Snoop has come prepared with a bottle of cognac shaped like a curvy lady. |
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A few include matelote of eel scented with cognac and eels en brochette. |
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On a char-broiled, medium rare, juicy, fair-size, New York steak, a cognac, pepper and fresh herbs saucing gives it a classic French-style finish. |
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The seaweed snap of a island whisky, the complex notes of a cognac, the salty edge of a bone dry manzanilla, the plummy flavours of a southern Italian red. |
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Although Seoul yeoman folk owe Pharaoh's Vaud bureau hoed oats, gauche Van Gogh, swallowing Curacao cognac oh so soulfully, sews grosgrain, pictoted, brooched chapeaux. |
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