Talk:Armagnac (drink)

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Three regions in Europe? Are we not counting Calvados?

Any suggestion on how to pronounce this?

We are indeed not counting calvados, which is produced from cider, not from wine.

The pronounciation of "Calvados" is quite straigtforward. "Armagnac" is pronounced "Armaniac", with a short "i". [aRmaɲak], in International Phonetic Alphabet. Rama 19:17, 18 September 2006 (UTC)

The fact that Calvados is produced from cider in no way alters its status as a brandy and an officialy demarcated brandy producing region.

Cognac is produced in alembic stills, while most Armagnac is made in column or continuous stills.

Armagnac is often aged in Monlezun black oak, Cognac is usually aged in Limousin or Troncais oak.

This article contains several unnecessary value judgments as to the quality of various brandies.

[edit] Puzzling statement

The article says "Ageing in the barrel removes a part of the alcohol by evaporation .... When the alcohol part reaches 40% or more, the armagnac is kept in large glass bottles" This seems to imply that aging continues until this is reached, and - but wait - it is going to start at 40% or more! What really happens? Notinasnaid 13:40, 11 February 2007 (UTC)