Bourgoin's VSOP Cognac gets 5 years in barrel before release and is a great addition to the home bar for cocktails or digestif. Pale in colour with a good concentration of stewed pear aromas and a hint of vanilla.
This XO Cognac from our smallest artisan Cognac producer is distilled with a strong component of lees (yeast) in the base wine that gives a major aromatic shift to the spirit that's honoured by bottling as a single vintage Cognac. Expect fresh fruits and cut hay to jump out of the glass, unlike most XO level spirits.
Bourgoin Cognac's most unique XO Cognac gets brought down to 45% alcohol with a blend of fresh and sea waters to replicate the flavour of a Cognac transported by barrels at sea. Pale in colour, but very flavourful with a strong element of salted toffee.
De Montal's 1952 vintage! Drink in honour of Volcán de Parícutin's nine-year-long hostile takeover of Mexican farmer Dionisio Pulido's cornfield, begun in '43 and ending in February of the year this was fruit was harvested.
De Montal's 1957 vintage! This is the year the Africanized honey bee, also known as the "killer bee", was accidentally released in Brazil! :S Of the two, we think Armagnac is the better import.
De Montal's 1974 vintage! Sean Connery stars in the sci-fi film Zardoz in an effort to shrug off his James Bond aura, and trades in his signature vesper martini for premium armagnac (we assume. Don't fact check that).
De Montal's 1982 vintage! Rod Stewart temporarily loses his $50,000 Porsche to a mugger in Los Angeles. Did he drink de Montal to cope? We don't know. Could be, though. Could be...
De Montal's 1993 vintage! The Czech Republic and Slovakia agree to disagree, and Kyōryū Sentai Zyuranger hits living rooms across North America as Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. Cheers!
