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A Beginner's Guide To Cognac
GQ South Africa
|June 2018
How to drink it, buy it, and mix it into cocktails
Even if you’ve never tried Cognac, there’s a good chance you’ve heard a lot about the drink in one of thousands of rap lyrics. But what is it, exactly? The amber-coloured spirit is an aged brandy – distilled wine – specifically made in the Cognac region of France.
‘Brandy you can produce anywhere in the world. Cognac, you can only produce in the west of France. That’s what makes it special,’ says Hugo Gallimard, brand education manager for Martell Cognac.
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