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VS & VSOPSmooth, versatile cognac — perfect for mixing and easy sipping.
XOOlder and richer — extra-old cognac, at least ten years in oak.
PrestigeLuxury and rare — Louis XIII, Paradis and collector releases.
CalvadosFrench apple brandy from Normandy — orchard-fruit and elegant.
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Fine & Rare Cognac
Collectible and vintage cognac — Paradis, Louis XIII and prestige cuvées. Explore →
The Story
Two great French brandies — one from grapes, one from apples.
Cognac: Grape to Glass
Cognac is a grape brandy made only in the Cognac region of France. White wine is double-distilled in copper pot stills, then aged for years in French oak — which gives it colour, warmth and complexity. The grades mark maturity: VS is at least two years, VSOP at least four, and XO at least ten.
Calvados: Apple Brandy
Calvados comes from Normandy, distilled from cider apples — and sometimes pears — then aged in oak. It shares cognac's elegance but carries bright orchard-fruit character: baked apple, pastry and warm spice. Lovely as a digestif, or in place of whisky in a sour.
How to Drink
In a tulip glass
Pour at room temperature and let it breathe — the classic way to enjoy fine cognac and calvados.
A fine digestif
Both make a perfect digestif; in Normandy a splash of calvados between courses is a tradition — the trou normand.
Beyond the snifter
Cognac makes a superb Sidecar, French Connection or Sazerac; calvados shines in a sour.
Brandy Cocktails
50ml cognac · 20ml triple sec · 20ml lemon juice
Shake with ice and strain into a chilled, optionally sugar-rimmed coupe.
Make it with cognac →50ml cognac · 1 sugar cube · 2 dashes Peychaud's bitters · absinthe rinse
Stir with ice, strain into an absinthe-rinsed glass and twist lemon over the top.
Make it with cognac →50ml calvados · 25ml lemon · 15ml sugar syrup · egg white (optional)
Dry-shake, then shake with ice and strain over fresh ice.
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