Crossword clues for cognac
cognac
- Hennessy or Courvoisier
- French spirits
- Drink served in a snifter
- Courvoisier or Remy Martin
- Colombard grapes product
- Town around 60 miles from Bordeaux
- Spirited French commune?
- Rémy Martin product
- Premium brandy
- Liquor in a sidecar
- High quality brandy
- Hennessy, e.g
- Grapes for dessert?
- French town — French brandy
- French city on the Charente
- Fine French brandy
- Courvoisier, e.g
- Courvoisier product
- Courvoisier or Hennessy
- Brandy variety
- After-dinner sipping
- CafГ© royale ingredient
- Product of a pot still
- CrГЄpe suzette flavorer
- French brandy
- Snifter filler
- High quality grape brandy distilled in the Cognac district of France
- Crêpe suzette flavorer
- Café royale ingredient
- Brandy center
- Cheat Canadian returning to French commune
- Charlie can go back for brandy
- Fine brandy
- High-quality brandy
- Drink, when cold, can go the wrong way
- Undistinguished salesmen getting sacked
- After-dinner drink
- After-dinner brandy, such as Courvoisier
- After-dinner order
- Courvoisier, for one
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cognac \Co"gnac`\, n. [F.] A kind of French brandy, so called from the town of Cognac.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1590s, Coniacke, "wine produced in Cognac," the region in western France. The sense of "brandy" is 1755, shortened from 17c. cognac brandy, which was distilled from cognac wine. The place name is from Medieval Latin Comniacum, from the personal name Cominius and the Gallo-Roman suffix -acum.
Wiktionary
n. a city in the Charente département of France, famous for cognac brandy
Wikipedia
Cognac ( or ; ), named after the town of Cognac, France, is a variety of brandy. It is produced in the wine-growing region surrounding the town from which it takes its name, in the French Departements of Charente and Charente-Maritime.
For a brandy to bear the name Cognac, an Appellation d'origine contrôlée, its production methods must meet certain legal requirements. In particular, it must be made from specified grapes (see below), of which Ugni blanc, known locally as Saint-Emilion, is the one most widely used. The brandy must be twice distilled in copper pot stills and aged at least two years in French oak barrels from Limousin or Tronçais. Cognac matures in the same way as whiskies and wine when aged in barrels, and most cognacs are aged considerably longer than the minimum legal requirement.
Usage examples of "cognac".
Who besides Gilles had the keys to the cellaret the cognac was in, and the keys to the mill.
A pull at the Cognac flask served him for breakfast and he paddled away on his voyage with vigorous stroke.
KGB Rezident at the Soviet embassy was standing in front of him, smiling and raising a glass of cognac in salute.
In front of the Cognac on the top shelf was a bottle of Haitian Barbancourt Rhum, aged fifteen years and as expensive as unblended Scotch.
He busied himself, first by pouring a glass of water and then a sifter of fine Cognac.
Lemoyne instructed as he exchanged the empty glass for the sifter of Cognac.
It is made artificially from high wines by the addition of oil of Cognac, to give it flavor, burnt sugar to give it color, and logwood or catechu, to impart astringency and roughness of taste.
Deputy Barras is old money: the hounds, the horses, the snifters of fine cognac .
For a moment he was filled with a vague feeling of disturbance, which he traced, much later at Berchtesgaden, to Councillor Berner and a couple of reckless hours spent over a cognac bottle.
Ramsey Osborn passed mellowly to cognac and cigars and watched the races on television.
The roof was hung with hams and polonies and sausages, there were barrels of pickled meats, stacks of fat round cheeses, cases of Hansa beer, cases of cognac, pyramids of canned truffles, asparagus tips, shrimps, mushrooms, olives in oil, and other rarities.
Taverner came in bearing coffee and a pair of fine decanters, one containing cognac, the other extremely rare unblended Scotch whisky.
Some were translucent lemon-coloured, others dark amber or cognac, with all shades in between, while again there were those that were untinted, clear as snow-melt in a mountain stream, with frosted facets that reflected the flames of the smoky little fire.
The noted author will show the visitors through the rooms, offer them cognac, and take them to the synagogue and the Judaica library.
Mercedes purred with gentle health on the road towards Madrid, Father Quixote realized with his nose that the bishop had left behind him for a brief instant an agreeable smell compounded of young wine, of cognac, and of manchegan cheese, which before it dispersed a stranger might well have mistaken for an exotic incense.