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 ...

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 ...

Cognac, which originates from a specific region of France and is named after the commune of Cognac, is far more popular outside its native country. Indeed, according to the industry group Bureau ...

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 ...