# Cognac

A protected French grape brandy from the Cognac region, double-distilled in copper pot stills and aged in oak.

Parent category: [Brandy](https://stirred.fyi/ingredients/brandy.md)

Alcohol: 40% ABV

## Cocktails

- [Alexander](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/alexander.md): A rich blend of Cognac, chocolate, and cream finished with fragrant nutmeg.
- [Between the Sheets](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/between-the-sheets.md): A bright, spirit-forward sour joining rum and Cognac with orange liqueur and lemon.
- [Brandy Daisy](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/brandy-daisy.md): The 1888 Harry Johnson branch joins Cognac and Yellow Chartreuse over crushed ice, with lemon, rich syrup, soda, berries, and mint around its herbal centre.
- [Champagne Cocktail](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/champagne-cocktail.md): A bitters-soaked sugar cube focuses Champagne's stream of bubbles, while Cognac gives the drink quiet depth.
- [Chicago Cocktail](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/chicago-cocktail.md): Cognac, curaçao, and bitters meet a restrained Champagne top beneath a sugar-crusted rim, placing this 1922 drink between the Champagne Cocktail and Brandy Crusta.
- [Conference](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/conference.md): A four-spirit Old Fashioned uniting rye, bourbon, Cognac, and Calvados with demerara and bitters.
- [Corpse Reviver No. 1](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/corpse-reviver-no-1.md): Cognac, Calvados, and sweet vermouth make a dark, spirit-forward member of the loosely named Corpse Reviver family, entirely unlike the bright gin-and-citrus No. 2.
- [Delmonico No. 1](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/delmonico-no-1.md): Cognac gives a Perfect Martini's split vermouth a small measure of vinous weight while Angostura adds spice, preserving the drink's useful closeness to its better-known relation.
- [East India Cocktail](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/east-india-cocktail.md): Tiny measures of pineapple, curaçao, maraschino, and bitters season Cognac without turning this nineteenth-century drink into either a sour or a tropical punch.
- [French Connection](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/french-connection.md): A restrained measure of amaretto rounds Cognac with silky texture and bittersweet stone-fruit-kernel perfume without burying the brandy's fruit and oak.
- [Horse’s Neck](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/horses-neck.md): Cognac and ginger ale become unusually aromatic beneath a continuous lemon spiral, whose peel oils give the spare, cold highball its defining dry edge.
- [Japanese Cocktail](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/japanese-cocktail.md): Cognac, orgeat, and aromatic bitters form a foundational stirred cocktail whose dry brandy structure keeps the almond syrup far from tropical territory.
- [Samoan Fog Cutter](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/samoan-fog-cutter.md): Trader Vic's later Samoan revision gives rum, Cognac, and gin an unusually broad tropical base before a sweet sherry float turns the citrus-and-orgeat drink savoury at the surface.
- [Sazerac](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/sazerac.md): Cognac, sugar, and Peychaud’s bitters served in an absinthe-rinsed glass.
- [Sidecar](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/sidecar.md): A crisp Cognac sour balanced with orange liqueur and lemon.
- [Soyer au Champagne](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/soyer-au-champagne.md): Vanilla ice cream softens Cognac, curaçao, and maraschino before cold Champagne turns the drink into a creamy, aromatic sparkling float.
- [Stinger](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/stinger.md): Cognac softened and cooled by white crème de menthe.
- [Vieux Carré](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/vieux-carre.md): Rye, Cognac, and vermouth layered with Bénédictine and Peychaud’s bitters.

## References

- Canonical page: https://stirred.fyi/ingredients/cognac
- Photograph: https://stirred.fyi/assets/ingredients/cognac-bb669e0b.webp
- Source: https://www.cognac.fr/en/discover/expertise/production/