Cognac

These are our picks for the top 7 brandies for Christmas 2025! A glass of brandy for Christmas is traditional. An elegant way to celebrate the big day, a good…

December 2, 2025Adam O'Connell

Who wants to win some Hennessy Cognac prize bundles for Christmas? All of you? Great! We’ve got goodies upon goodies among some very fine Cognac indeed. There’s a first-place and…

December 1, 2025Adam O'Connell

“Cognac is something I’ve always appreciated for its complexity and richness,” says Idris Elba, founder of Porte Noire.  Idris Elba and The Porte Noire story His brand, meaning “Black Door”,…

August 26, 2025Adam O'Connell

The supercomputer doesn’t lie. Unless we tell it to. Even then, we can tell it’s uncomfortable. We’re getting off track. The point is, the supercomputer didn’t lie when we asked…

June 13, 2024Adam O'Connell

How many brandy or Cognac-based cocktails can you name? Better still, how many do you know how to make? Perhaps a few more once we’re done here… Brandy is the…

April 19, 2024Emma Symons

We’re celebrating brandy this week at Master of Malt so we were delighted to get some time with one of the biggest names in the industry, Thibaut Hontanx chief blender…

April 17, 2024Henry Jeffreys

Cognac. Cognac! Ah, Cognac, the very word if a byword for luxury and sophistication. Cognac, drunk by hip hop stars and oligarchs and comes in lavishly packaged crystal decanters. All…

April 16, 2024Henry Jeffreys

Brandy is a distilled and aged spirit made all over the world from all kinds of fermented fruit juices. It’s not just France and not just grapes. Globally, brandy exhibits…

April 15, 2024Adam O'Connell

Lovers of malt whisky or aged rum should really be exploring the Cognac region, especially with a certain winter holiday on the horizon. It’s coming! If old sherried single malts…

October 18, 2023Master of Malt

Earlier this year we were invited to a swanky London club to try a very special new range of Cognacs from Delamain. Now, at last, they have arrived at MoM…

September 17, 2020Henry Jeffreys

It’s all well and good drinking it, but how much do you really know about France’s beloved grape-based spirit? Here, David Boileau, Cognac ambassador for the Bureau National Interprofessionnel du…

October 3, 2018Annie Hayes

As a bevy of drinks companies post their full-year results, let’s get down to business with this week’s The Nightcap. Greetings from another Friday! You’ve made it through a week,…

July 27, 2018Master of Malt

Where better to enjoy a glass of Cognac than in actual Cognac? Well, Martell has upped the ante – and opened a smart rooftop bar not only in Cognac but…

July 17, 2018Kristiane Sherry

Happy Friday, team! Summer is ON (at least here in the UK) and there’s a certain football match on the agenda tomorrow… But before that comes around, it’s time to…

July 6, 2018Master of Malt

Another week comes to a close, so it’s time for a round-up of booze stories to help you start your weekend with a brain full of knowledge – it’s The…

June 22, 2018Master of Malt

Any 2018 drinks trend round-up worth its salt will mention ‘hybrid spirits’. But what the hell are they, are they any good, and why should we bother anyway when the…

May 10, 2018Kristiane Sherry