Brandy week 2024

Vieux Carre8 great brandy and Cognac cocktails

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…

Emma SymonsEmma Symons
The art of the blend with Courvoisier’s Thibaut Hontanx
The art of the blend with Courvoisier’s Thibaut Hontanx

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…

Henry JeffreysHenry Jeffreys
Rémy Martin 1738 Sidecar10 Cognacs for single malt lovers

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…

Henry JeffreysHenry Jeffreys
A guide to brandy from around the worldA guide to brandy from around the world

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…

Adam O'ConnellAdam O'Connell