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Three regions in Europe? Are we not counting Calvados?
Any suggestion on how to pronounce this?
The fact that Calvados is produced from cider in no way alters its status as a brandy and an officialy demarcated brandy producing region.
Cognac is produced in alembic stills, while most Armagnac is made in column or continuous stills.
Armagnac is often aged in Monlezun black oak, Cognac is usually aged in Limousin or Troncais oak.
This article contains several unnecessary value judgments as to the quality of various brandies.
Actually Brandy needs to be made from grapes. Calvados is a fruit spirit.
But Spain has more then one region for Brandy; Jerez and Penedes.
To state that Armagnac is made by a column or continues still is misleading as this leads you to think that you use the same still as for vodka. In fact the still used for Armagnac is called alembic armagnacais and has a column with very few plates, maybe only three paltes. Similar stills are often used for rhum agricole.
For oak limousin and alsace is used more frequently then Monlezun
There is also a need for a paragraph on labeling regarding how age is labeled.
Source for example "Distilling Knowledege" Dave Broom 2006, Wine & Spirit Education Trust, London Puntos (talk) 08:29, 3 October 2008 (UTC)
The article says "Ageing in the barrel removes a part of the alcohol by evaporation .... When the alcohol part reaches 40% or more, the armagnac is kept in large glass bottles" This seems to imply that aging continues until this is reached, and - but wait - it is going to start at 40% or more! What really happens? Notinasnaid 13:40, 11 February 2007 (UTC)
I miss a statement to the bouquetieres or bonificateurs used in the Armagnac production !?! --Symposiarch 10:18, 21 February 2007 (UTC)
"Along with cognac in Cognac, France and sherry in Jerez, Spain, it is one of only three officially demarcated brandy regions in Europe." Perhaps I'm missing something, but how is sherry a demarcated brandy region, if sherry is a fortified wine, which I have never known to be a subset of brandy... -Verdatum (talk) 12:20, 27 December 2007 (UTC)
The article states
"In the case of assemblies, the age on the bottle refers to the youngest component. An "XXX" or "VS" armagnac is a mix of several armagnacs of at least two years of ageing in wood. For the VSOP, the ageing is at least five years, and for XO, at least six. Richer and more interesting flavours appear from 15 or 20 years of ageing, or more."
It then goes on to state
"Ageing Requirements for armagnac are:
* VS [Very Special] " XXX "- at least one year old * VSOP [Very Superior Old Pale] or Réserve - at least four years old * XO, Napoléon, Extra, Vieille Réserve - at least five years old."
I do not see how these two claims are consistent - and I am not competent to decide which, if either, is correct. Any experts? --Silver149 (talk) 16:15, 27 January 2008 (UTC)
Would anyone be able to start of list of companies that make/sell Armagnac? There is a similar list in Cognac and I think it'd be useful for people wanting to do *ahem* "further research" in Armagnac. --I (talk) 17:13, 15 September 2008 (UTC)
Well, I can't help but feel that a year or so later, all we've got is a long and rather pointless list of non-notable and random producers. Is this actually telling anyone anything as currently set up? I'm quite tempted to just remove all these names ...--Nickhh (talk) 09:37, 21 January 2010 (UTC)
The Daily Mail is indeed not a great source to use, especially when it comes to health. They print a lot of "miracle cure" stories so I would suggest finding the original study that article cites as a reference instead. Reading the article should make this clearer, e.g. "Boffins at Bordeaux University" and "People who live in the Gascony area of France ... live five years longer than average in French, despite puffing on cigarettes all day". These quotations should show it's not really a serious paper or a useful source. Kombucha (talk) 18:25, 9 September 2011 (UTC)
One cannot forget the demarcated region of Lourinha, Portugal, for it's 'Aguardente da Lourinha'. Commonly known as 'Lourignac'.
The Lourinha region in 1992 received 'DOC' status from the Portuguese government, which translates as 'Controlled Designation of Origin'.
The only one in Portugal and the fourth in the world, alongside Jerez Spain, Cognac and Armagnac France.
In the XVIII century, the Marquis de Pombal,[The Equivalent to today's Prime Minister] mandated that the Aguardente da Lourinha be used
in the fortification of Port wine because of it's superior quality. For the next 200 years the best Port wines benefited from Lourinha brandy to produce their world famous fortified wines.
The Aguardente da Lourinha has won 8 gold medals since 2008. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.233.97.18 (talk) 21:43, 3 September 2016 (UTC)
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The result of the move request was: consensus to move this page to Armagnac and the disambiguation page to Armagnac (disambiguation) at this time, per the discussion below. Dekimasuよ! 03:44, 8 February 2019 (UTC)
Armagnac (brandy) → Armagnac (drink)Armagnac – Reverse the redirect. Per WP:NCDAB, in this class and context, "(drink)" is the disambiguating phrase commonly used on other topics. This was moved in 2012 to match Cognac (brandy), but that is now a redirect to Cognac. 94.21.204.175 (talk) 02:40, 26 January 2019 (UTC)--Relisted. –Ammarpad (talk) 05:06, 2 February 2019 (UTC)