Cognac Drinks & Cocktails
Cognac Expert presents a new cognac cocktail every week. Discover new recipes, mixing ideas and explore how cognac cocktails reinvent themselves today. Cocktails that use Cognac as an ingredient is not new, it has always been an important part of the category.
When Cognac meets Ice-cream
“I doubt whether the world holds for anyone a more soul-stirring surprise than the first adventure with ice cream” – Heywood C. Broun, American Writer, 1888-1939 Soyer Au Champagne 1 part Courvoisier‘s VSOP Exclusif 1 part Maraschino liqueur 1 part Orange liqueur 1 part Pineapple juice 1 tbsp Vanilla ice cream Top Champagne Method Add…
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Poet, pirate, punch lover, prisoner, soldier, revolutionary, merchant – Sir Walter Raleigh’s Sack Ale Posset
“This is a sharp Medicine, but it is a Physician for all Diseases.” – Sir Walter Raleigh describing the axe that would deliver his execution – 1618 Recipe Sir Walter Raleigh, Sack Ale Posset A drink named after the hero of the time, this 16th century punch was popular right up to the birth of…
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Nutmeg or Manhattan? Spiced Armada
“Nothing in Nature’s sober found, But an eternal Health goes round. Fill up the Bowl then, fill it high—Fill all the Glasses there; for why Should every Creature Drink but I? Why, Man of Morals, tell me why?” – Abraham Cowley, poem from Anacreon II. Drinking (Mid 17th Century) Spiced Armada 1 part Courvoisier‘s VSOP…
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Blazing Brandy
“An efficient bartenders first aim should be to please his customers, paying particular attention to meet the individual wishes of those whose tastes and desires he has already watched and ascertained…In this way he will not fail to acquire popularity and success” – Jerry “The Professor” Thomas, Bar-Tenders Guide, 1887 Orange + Java Blazer 2…
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When in Harvard, have the Harvard
“An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.” – Ernest Hemingway Harvard Cocktail 2 parts Courvoisier‘s VSOP Exclusif 1/3 part Maraschino Cherry Liqueur 1/3 part Sweet vermouth 3 Dashes of Angostura bitters 1 Orange zest Method: Stir all ingredients together in a mixing glass over cubed ice until…
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Nelson, Napoleon and Brass Monkeys
“Cold enough to freeze the tale off a brass monkey” – Before the Mast by C.A. Abbey, 1857. Brass Monkey 2 parts Courvoisier‘s VSOP Exclusif ½ part Tawny Port ½ part Benedictine ½ part Fresh orange juice 3 Dashes of orange bitters Glass: Tumbler rocks glass Method Stir all ingredients together in a rocks…
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