Along with Ouzo, Metaxa is the most famous Greek alcohol in the world. Metaxa was developed by the Greek silk merchant Spyros Metaxa in the late 1800s. Because of his work, Spyros traveled extensively and at the same time learned various alcohols and wines from different countries. He thought many distillates…
The Georgian winery Askaneli already had operations in the late 19th century, but the actual production of wine and wine distillates began in 1998. Askaneli is one of the few Georgian wine producers who also own distillation facilities. Indeed, their distillates are the most widely available together with another producer, Sarajishvili,…
Remy Martin's winery was founded in 1886, at a time when the phylloxera was wreaking havoc in French vineyards. Founder Paul-Emile Rémy Martin II started to grow a new grape variety that was resistant to the parasite. In the same year, Paul-Emile also founded a distillery and began producing brandies. However,…
Grand Cavalier is a brandy produced by Latvijas Balzams in Riga, Latvia. It is comprehensively sold in grocery stores in the Baltic countries and one of the cheapest brands in the stores. Not much information is available about it, but according to some sources it is a mixture of grape distillates…
Ararat is an Armenian brandy produced by the Yerevan Brandy Company since 1887. It is made from white grapes grown in Armenia, using traditional methods. The grapes are pressed by the same methods as in the production of sparkling wine. The wine used is distilled twice on copper pot distillation and…
Soberano is made by Gonzales Byass, which is better known on it’s sherry production. Conzalez Byass was established in 1835 by Manuel Maria Conzalez, who decided to start sherry and other wines production at the city of Jerez, in south-Spain. To get the products more widely on sale, he took a…
Askaneli Brothers is a Georgian wine house, established at 1880 at Askana village at Gurian parish. It was built by Antimoz Askaneli and his sons took the wine house on control after 18 years of establishment. Askaneli sons were very active, they invested much to wine fields and use time also…
Aznauri means noble in georgian language. Aznauri brandies are produced in Georgia by Ukrainian company Global Beverage Trade. It is sold as cognac in Ukrainian and Russian market, but exported as brandy. Aznauri brandies are made by Rkaksiteli grapes (another usual grape sort in Georgia is Saperavi). After distillation it is…
Torres wine house was established by Jaime Torres in Catalonia, Spain at 1870. It is the biggest wine producer in Spain and they have wine fields also in California and Chile. Torres was the first European company which invested to Chile and have had big influence for Chilean wines growth to…
Grand Duke is a product of Lithuanian conglomerate UAB “Gelsva”. Gelsva owns Lithuanian biggest alcohol chain store Vynoteka, many restaurants, spring water factory, wine and food import and wholesale. Grand Duke is made in Bulgaria and it’s on sale only in Vynoteka stores in Lithuania and Poland. 20cl bottle costs 3.99€. …