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The Merlet family, distillers since 1850 recently introduced the Merlet Brothers Blend, the first Cognac they bring with private label to the market, but made with know-how of five generations.
This Brothers Blend results from the marriage of several “Eaux-de-Vies” aged from 4 to 12 years old. Brothers Blend consists 80% of Fins Bois which is aged for 4-5 years, giving it a slightly ligther tone, 20% comes from Fine Champagne (Grande and Petite Champagne) and is aged for 12 years.

In 2004 Hennessy created the 9.shoot project, an box with 9 stylish missile-like bottles of Hennessy Cognac, the bottom of these awesome bottles could be used as a Cognac Glass.
Unfortunately this project didn’t become publicly well known, so probably Hennessy decided not to produce it.
In search on the internet, I found the website of Jerome Blanchard with beautiful pictures of this special project and couldn’t resist to share it with our Cognac-Friends! Hope you like it…

A few weeks ago I mentioned you about a the unique tasting of Pre-Phylloxera Cognacs in the Netherlands! We had the possibility to taste 10 very rare Cognacs, most of them dated from before 1900!
Because I wrote tasting-notes about the tasted Cognacs, I will publish them regularly on Cognac Fans. I will begin with the oldest Cognac tasted that event!

Comandon Cognac, producer of fine boutique premium cognacs and winner of the best cognac at the world spirit competition, has just announced that it has launched the first “Single-Barrel Cognac” selection.
Comandon Single Barrel Cognac is the first cognac house to introduce a full line of single barrel cognacs while also producing the classic VS/VSOP/XO qualities.

The Netherlands national Bay van der Bunt has claimed the title of owning the “world’s largest collection of old liquors”.
Sadly, however, he’s willing to relinquish the title for the price $8 million (US). The historic collection holds over 5,000 bottled liquors to include 250 years old cognac, whisky, armagnac, port, madeira and rare liqueurs.

To celebrate the success of Cognac Fans with our readers and visitors, we decided we would celebrate by giving away a free Moleskine Rémy Martin Diary 2012 and a Rémy Martin pen for one lucky winner.
Now to the contest part. Its not really a contest but we would definitely appreciate if you could do us a favor. We are pretty passionate about cognac not only because it tastes good but because of the quality and the history that surrounds cognac.

Before we get into the procedure we need to know that “All cognac is brandy but not all brandy is cognac.” Brandy can be made from any fruit from any region but cognac is made only from grapes from the Cognac region in France.
There are several ways to drink cognac, personally I prefer to drink it neat at room temperature. Let’s get started with the guide!

As you already know this blog is all things cognac and alcohol. We love to drink a fine cognac each day if possible.
Drinking every day doesn’t necessarily mean getting drunk, when alcohol is consumed in moderation it can help you live longer. It’s not a myth, numerous medical studies have supported the fact that drinking alcohol in moderation can indeed make you healthier and help you cure certain diseases. To stress the fact that drinking is ok but in moderation, we thought we would talk a bit about it.

Courvoisier just launched a totally new product, called C by Courvoisier!
C by Courvoisier offers an innovative, new option in the cognac category. It’s a intense blend of small-batch-produced cognac specially selected from 50 winegrowers in the Fins Bois Cru and goes through a double-barrel aging process to produce a smooth, full-bodied taste experience.

Last Friday a group of Dutch Cognac enthusiasts were invited at Oldliquors, the company behind the biggest collection exclusive vintage Cognacs. Some cognacs are even dated before 1800!
We had the possibility to taste 10 exclusive Cognacs, an event we will never forget in our life… In this post we will share some pictures of the event. Reviews of the tasted Cognacs will published in the next weeks.