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What is champagne brandy?

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What is champagne brandy?

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I think what you are thinking of of is Cognac Brandy made from grapes grown in two areas of Cognac called — confusingly enough – Grande Champagne and Petite Champagne – which are regions in the Cognac area and nothing at all to do with the Champagne of sparkling wine fame. You will see these terms on some bottles of Cognac. The name ‘champagne’ as a description of the area comes from the same root as the name used in the famous sparkling wine area, and both areas are chalky soil. While it is perfecty possible to distill Champagne wine to make brandy, there is such demand for Champagne that I am 99% certain that it doesn’t happen. (Also wine is not Champagne until it has undergone expensive and lengthy secondary fermenation and aging in the bottle and to then distill it would make no economic sense at all.) As for making brandy from the grapes grown in Champagne, again it is unlikely because the law limits plantings there to three noble varieties, one of which (Pinot Noir) is really di

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