The drink originally got its name from a brand of French cognac named Sazerac-de-Forge et Fils.
The ingredients include Courvoisier cognac, Japanese sencha tea and an oven-baked tarantula and scorpion.
Also in the wooden case is a bottle of 1896 Hennessy Very Special cognac.
Andreu and Gabriel hardly grasped all this when they launched into the cognac business in 1989.
Cognac has always seemed impervious to the French establishment's hostility to American film culture.
Afterward, as they were drinking Cognac, the judge asked him what he found so funny.
LVMH, a French luxury-goods conglomerate that owns Hennessy cognac, has said it is not interested.
Pernod says Fortune will take on Allied's Courvoisier cognac, since it already owns Martell.
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The 1878 Grand Fins Bois Cognac is said to be "excellent, superlative even - fiery and delicious".
He has his own 50-year-old cognac and 25-year-old armagnac, both of which are made explicitly for him.
Borges Luis Jorge did not want tea, preferring a glass of cognac as compensation for his wasted time.
But 92% of all cognac is exported and the lucrative Far East market remains wobbly, especially in Japan.
Sink into a leather chair and sip a vintage cognac, surrounded by leather-bound books and beautiful dark wood fittings.
Permitted only to sell a third of their crop for distillation into cognac, they turn the rest unprofitably into industrial alcohol.
Life is simple now: one day cognac, one day coffee and a cigarette.
This is what distinguishes single malt whisky from brandy, cognac and other "tipples".
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But in the late 1800s, a phylloxera epidemic devastated the French grapes used to make cognac, making the spirit incredibly hard to find.
All these promotions, including the film festival, are aimed at shifting the traditional image of cognac as exclusively an after-dinner drink.
For two years in the mid-1990s, he was the world's largest buyer of Hennessy Paradis cognac, the company said at the time.
"You don't start a cognac business, you inherit one, " says Gabriel, 39.
Many small grape-growers and distillers across the 4, 200-square-mile cognac region have been held by the same families for a century or more.
Imagine very good quality, layered and complex cognac infused with a heavy dose of smoky, oily orange flavor and you have Quintessence.
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Koo, who likes to relax with a cigar, which he sometimes dips into his fine cognac, stresses family values among his employees.
In the late 1970s, a divine bread pudding moist, creamy and dense with cognac-soaked fruit from Boston's Dodin-Bouffant rekindled my interest in nursery desserts.
The local barons don't want Cognac to become known as a splatterfest.
Such a deal would close the cognac and champagne gap in Diageo's otherwise well-stocked drinks cabinet, and would help its expansion in China.
Many small grape growers and distillers across the 4, 200-square-mile cognac region have been held by the same families for a century or more.
The result yields a bourbon with the posture of a rich cognac with notes of dark chocolate, nuts, maple sugar, caramel and apricot.
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The concept was the creation of Alexandre Gabriel, who for 20 years has been the head of esteemed French Cognac house Ferrand Estate.
There is a sharp contrast between the explicit violence of some of the festival's recent thrillers and the good taste represented by cognac.
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