What does this mean?!
What does this mean?
Cognac is a Brandy, but Brandy is not a Cognac
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Both are the same basic alcohol but cognac can only come from the Cognac region in France. It's the same way that sparkling wine and champagne are the same except only the stuff from the Champagne region of France can be called champagne.
So all cognacs are brandies but not all brandies are cognac.
it is an assymmetrical relationship. It is like saying all squirrels are animals, but not alll animals are squirrels. It is a realtionship of an item in a category. So Cognac is a type of Brandy but not all Brandy's are cognacs.
Cognac can be a type of brandy. But Brandy is a liquor itself and not totally related to cognac.Kay?
Cognac has to come out of the region cognac in France, Brandy can be made anywhere. Brandy is a imitation cognac
brandy is a type of liquor. some brandys come from a particular region and can then be called cognac. The Cognac region is located on the west-central Atlantic coast of France, just north of Bordeaux, in the departments of Charente and Charente-Maritime
Bit like saying all Ladies are women, but not all women are ladies!
Cognac is a type of brandy, but not all brandy qualifies as Cognac.
Actually, your quote is a mistake. Cognac IS a brandy, but not ALL brandies are Congnacs. Some brandies are very nice Cognacs, in fact. Some brandies are very nice Armenacs, which is a region right next to Cogniac.
The confusion comes from the fact that the vast majority of wines and brandies in France are named for the region, town, or villiage that the grapes are grown in. A more common example of the same type thing is saying that Champagne is a sparkling wine, but not all sparkling wines are Champagne, as in order to be a true Champagne, the grapes have to be grown in the Champagne region in France.
The region these products come from, called an appellation, have been misused over the years to describe a type of wine or brandy, but to a real afficianado, a true Cogniac, which is one type of brandy, only comes from the Cognac region, and true Champagne, a sparkling wine, only come from the region called Champagne.