Brandy & Cognac

Brandy is any spirit distilled from wine or fermented fruit. Cognac is a brandy from the Cognac region of France, made from white grapes, distilled twice in copper pot stills and aged at least two years in French oak. All Cognac is brandy, but not all brandy is Cognac. See every Hennessy on our Hennessy page.

France's other great grape brandy, from Gascony in the southwest. It's usually distilled once in a column still, which keeps more flavor, so it tends to be richer and more rustic than Cognac.

Calvados is apple brandy from Normandy. Pisco is an unaged grape brandy from Peru and Chile and the base of the Pisco Sour. Grappa is Italian brandy distilled from the grape skins and seeds left after winemaking. We carry Menorval Calvados and Santiago Queirolo Pisco.