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Mediteranian oranges, powerful rancio

I took a bottle of cognac to a party last weekend, to share with a friend that I hadn’t seen in 35 years, just in case he liked cognac, or wanted to learn.  It turns out that he is a bourbon drinker by habit, drinking only the finest sipping bourbons around.  This heartened me, as he already knows how to sip, and not gulp a fine adult beverage.  It was late in the evening and he & his wife had just slipped into the hot tub when I offered him a 40-year old Francois Voyer Extra.  He took the snifter with a large grin.  After only a moment, his wife made it clear that she wanted some private time with my friend, so I left them each with a snifter and took the bottle and my snifter inside with me.

This cognac never ceases to amaze me.  Even at 40-years old, it still has tremendous fruit flavors in it.  There are Mediterranean oranges and hints of other citrus.  The rancio is some of the most powerful I’ve ever found, yet it’s not beating you in the back of the head with an oak stick.  This is what cognac should be.

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