Cognac : The Story of the World's Greatest Brandy

• Autore: Faith Nicholas
• Pubblicazione: Oxford : , : Infinite Ideas, , 2016; ©2016
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (212 pages)
• Disciplina: 641.253
• Soggetto topico: Brandy; France
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Title Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Part I: The Making of Cognac -- 1. Land, vine, wine -- 2. Distillation: the heart of the matter -- 3. Brandy + age + oak = cognac -- 4. The personality of cognac -- Part II: The Story of Cognac -- 5. From salt to wine to Cognac brandy -- 6. Revolutions on the road to days of glory -- 7. Disaster, recovery, occupation -- 8. Thirty golden years -- 9. Not just a drama, a crisis -- 10. Fight-back -- Part III: All About the Cognacs -- 11. The enjoyment of cognac -- 12. The producers and their brandies -- Glossary -- Appendix 1: The Law -- Cognac and the law -- Distillation -- Ageing -- Allied products -- Le Bureau National Interprofessionel du Cognac (BNIC) 200 -- Recent restrictions -- Appendix II: The Figures -- Size -- Production -- Sales -- Bibliography.
• Sommario/riassunto: This fully revised third edition of Cognac: The story of the world's greatest brandyprovides an authoritative account of how the much-loved spirit is produced and matured, including a directory of cognac producers and their products that has been updated to include 2015 production.
• Titolo autorizzato: Cognac
• ISBN: 1-910902-34-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910153649403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: The Classic Wine Library