Armagnac is a grape brandy that is produced in the Armagnac region of the French province of Gascony. This region was the first in France to begin distilling grape-based spirits, making Armagnac the ...

For many of us living in New England, winter weather has thankfully returned to the region the last few weeks. (It's March. It snows. It's normal.) So depending on when you're reading this week's ...

Armagnac, that underappreciated and fiery Gascon brandy, has a long history. David Lincoln Ross pays tribute—and shares a recipe for a winter warmer perfect for a musketeer. As 2011’s winter draws to ...

Americans drink thirty-five million bottles of cognac each year (we're the world's No. 1 consumer by far). That's a lot of cognac, and most of it isn't particularly good. To meet growing demand, ...

Armagnac—a chef’s brandy—is both subtle and striated with flavor. French Armagnac brandy has been produced for seven hundred years—centuries longer than Cognac brandy. These spirits differ in key ways ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Technically the oldest documented spirit to be distilled, brandy alcohol is an incredibly widespread category, with different ...

In Georges Simenon’s iconic series of French detective novels from the ‘30s, after a particularly harrowing case, Inspector Maigret often nips into a bar to smoke his beloved pipe with a glass of ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Armagnac – it strikes me as I drive through the green hills south of Agen – is not so much la France profonde as ...

Armagnac brandy that is often derided as the poor cousin of Cognac has been found to possess amazing health enhancing qualities. Research has shown that the famous drink from the south west of France ...

As 2011’s winter draws to a frigid close, cozying up with a glass of mellow Armagnac brandy is the very thing to take the chill off following a blazing ski run, or an hour of ice-skating round and ...