eau de vie

Again, made from a blend of exclusive Eaux-De-Vies (brandy distilled from any raw ingredients such as fruit, except for grapes) in the sought after vineyards of Grande Champagne and Petite Champagne.

It was created from a special blend of up to 1,200 grape eaux-de-vie sourced exclusively from the Cognac region and was matured slowly inside oak casks for up to 100 years.

Today, Louis XIII's cellar masters are already setting aside the finest eaux-de-vie as legacy to the next ones who would continue to blend the best cognac for years to come.

The acquisition of Maison JR Brillet will represent, for Remy Cointreau, the opportunity to integrate spirits with genuine development potential into its portfolio and to increase, over time, the value of an inventory of eaux-de-vie and vineyards of the highest quality.

The rules for creating it are much stricter than other eaux-de-vie. It must originate in the eponymous region located in southwest France.

The carafe of cognac is a blend of some one hundred of the most remarkable eaux-de-vie selected, the oldest of which date back to 1907, from among the Hennessy reserves.

Remy also released two limited editions in the past two years, a blend of all 1965 eaux-de-vie in 2007, and a one in 2008 from a blend cellared in 1989.

You can have anything from breakfast in the vineyard and tours of the cellars, to a workshop when you actually get to blend some of the precious eaux-de-vie to make your own cognac, followed by an extravagant dinner in Le Grollet - the family residence.

"We wanted to capture that in our vodka." Winters and founder Jorg Rupf strive to highlight that and other subtle flavors in their Hangar One vodkas, single-malt whiskey, and eaux-de-vie, all of which can be sampled in their new tasting room at a converted airplane hangar in Alameda.

In the greedy '80s, the nicer '90s, and throughout the past decades and centuries, people with good taste have always appreciated eaux-de-vie - those clear, exquisitely perfumed fruit brandies.

The Moscato is distilled from finished wine, in the style of eaux-de-vie (fruit brandies) from Alsace.

In fact the cognac was named Louis XIII not only after the first monarch to recognize cognac as a category in its own right in the world of eaux-de-vie (water of life, also, distilled spirits), but also as a tribute to the monarch in power when the Remy Martin family, producers of the Louis XIII cognac, settled in the Cognac region sometime in the 1700s.

Start with that bottle: a distinctive decanter, said to be unearthed in 1569 after the Battle of Jarnac, inspired Paul-Eacutemile Reacutemy Martin three centuries later to create the first Louis XIII, blended from hundreds of the best eaux-de-vie from the Champagne region.

It has high quality eaux-de-vie of all ages and state-of-the-art industrial facilities, notably the distillery Le Maine au Bois, the company said.