Renault cognac got its name from Jean Antonin Renault, who in 1835 founded his own brand in the city of Cognac. Renault was one of the first cognac houses to bottle cognac in a glass bottle. This is said to greatly affect the quality and smoothness of the spirit. Renault is…
David Sarajishvili is the largest and most famous brandy producer in Georgia. The company started producing brandy in 1884, in Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia. In the early years, the company sold its products mainly to the Russian market, but twenty years later, Sarajishvili was able to sell its production to…
Bache Gabrielsen is yet another cognac producer of Norwegian origin. Thomas Bache-Gabrielsen moved from Norway to France in the cognac region, bought the Dupuy cognac house in 1905 and started producing cognac under his own name. Today, BG is owned by the fourth generation and continues to export cognacs, especially to…
Jean-Gabriel Monnet founded his cognac house in 1897 and it remained in the possession of the Monnet family for more than 60 years. In recent decades, Monnet's owner has changed many times. It has been owned by Hennessy, Hine, Angostura and a few others until it finally ended up in the…
Schuchmann is a German family that bought a winery in Georgia in 2008 and continued to produce wine there. The head of the family, Burkhard Schuchmann, had already been in Georgia when he was a young student and fell in love with the country so much that he decided to move…
LV Destilati is a small distillery near Jelgava, Latvia. The company produces various distillates, using berries, apples and other fruits. The distillery is using very traditional methods. The berries or fruits are first fermented into wine and then distilled using wood-heated distillation equipments. There is information about the company only in…
Coquerel is clearly the most prominent Calvados in the Baltic States. You can find it for sale in almost every grocery store and very often it is the only calvados available. Maisons de Coquerel started producing calvados in 1937 in Normandy, northern France. The company has been producing calvados ever since,…
Armagnac comes from France and is said to be one of the oldest distilled spirits. It is one kind of a brandy that can only be made in the Armagnac region in southwestern France. For armagnac production the same grapes are used as cognac, but the distillation is carried out using…
Salvodore is a Moldovan brandy. It is manufactured by Ungheni-Vin and imported into the Baltics by Respomar. It is mainly sold in Maxima grocery stores in all Baltic countries. In addition to the Baltics, it is also available at least in Ukraine. Ungheni-Vin produces brandy under several different brands. Salvodore San…
Braastad is a small family company with its own 40-hectare grape plantations, where it produces cognac from start to finish. Braastad, or actually Tiffon's cognac house, was founded in 1875. The Braastad name was only adopted later, when the Norwegian Sverre Braastad came to work for the company and married the…