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 ...

Long before cognac, there was brandy. Long before brandy, there was wine. And before that came the grapes. And even longer before that was the Cognac region of France, where the grapes grew and the ...

The sunlit French landscape of the Cognac region slid by my car window: crumbling stone walls, tidy farmhouses with red-tile roofs, mile upon mile of low hills and rolling ridges covered with leafy ...

The Cognac region on the western edge of France is well known. After all, this is the only geographic area in the world where Cognac can legally be made. But what is not so well known is that just off ...

Wine culled from the chalky soil of France’s Cognac region has a tendency to be acidic, thin and unpalatable. This might have doomed the terroir to gastronomic obscurity, had the region’s vintners not ...

Costco customer with cart shopping in liquor section of store. - Trong Nguyen/Shutterstock Cognac is a type of brandy, but the two spirits are not interchangeable. Per French AOC standards, brandy can ...

America now consumes more cognac than any other country in the world. Here’s why. The twice-distilled French liquor known as Cognac has accrued eager devotees and has slowly gone from spirit you might ...

Here's how to tell these French brandies apart. As Cognac continues its impressive rise in popularity and Armagnac reaches a larger market than the more niche one it has historically appealed to in ...