Cognac is one of the most popular drinks around the world, annually winning even the most exacting public the delicate taste and aroma. Worldwide thousands of clubs of fans of cognac are registered, and especially ardent judges of noble drink organize the closed festivals and tastings, tremblingly protecting the most expensive grades of cognac from profane persons.
The fragrant, possessing refined aftertaste and long-term history, good cognac - destiny of the real gourmets having a responsible approach to drinking of the alcoholic drinks doing from this the true pleasure which is followed by the pleasant business company or in the languid and quiet romantic evening.
Taste in a vessel
It isn't necessary to neglect special vessels for consumption of cognac which treats classical снифетр, the glass executed in the form of a keg or the most ordinary tulip on a thin long leg which allows to enjoy at all not less the pleasant aroma exhaled by drink.
Professionals advise to sustain an open bottle which is stored in vertical position, allowing to avoid thus harmful contact of drink with a stopper.
Open cognac needs to be taken vertically to give the chance to a multistar miracle to become impregnated with oxygen, this process is called aeration, it impacts to drink favourite relish and aroma.
Drink is served after second courses, heating liquid to temperature several degrees higher room, usually are engaged in its drinking slowly, under light music or coffee, to drink cognac in a volley - impropriety top.
Color, aroma, taste
Before the use enjoy pleasant color of the real cognac, slowly rotating the glass given you and watching how drink leaves pleasant marks of the presence on glass or crystal. Then inhale the cognac smell possessing three notes which are consistently replacing each other: vanilla, flower and fruit note and, at last, so-called smell of times. Now start slow drinking, savouring each drink and absorbing in itself all magnificence of the taste which is poured in a mouth and aftertastes. Whether you know that the classical limonchik is more likely the rule of bad form, than light meal under cognac, it is known long ago that a citrus doesn't emphasize, and more likely on the contrary kill taste of alcoholic drink for this reason cognac can be emphasized with the real coffee or to drink as independent drink.
Cognac is also not forbidden to be mixed with coffee, ice cream, ice or even carbonated drinks, creating at the same time absolutely new fancy tastes.
Rules of modern etiquette allow to mix this noble drink during creation of various cocktails, as additional ingredients Martini, cream, various fruit syrups or liqueurs, as a rule, are used.