all right so before we do anything i would love to thank the sponsor of today's episode hennessy if you guys are familiar with this channel you saw me using hennessy several times in my cocktails so it is not a surprise how much i love this cognac so thank you very much guys for allowing me to make this video it also helps me a lot to share my passion for cognac with you now if you guys are here just to quench your thirst i'm gonna timestamp the video so you can jump right into the cocktail making section but before i would love to talk a little bit about what is cognac and why i love it so much to explain what cognac is in the simplest way possible and i mean so simple that it's almost not true anymore and you will understand why later but just for you to get the basics cognac is the distillation of wine then aged in oak barrels but to be called cognac the production needs to follow some very strict and precise rules and those are what makes up this brit something so unique so the rules are number one the zone of production so to be called going egg the grapes used to make the spirit need to grow in a specific region and these regions are also known as so if you look at a map this is what it looks like you have the gran champang petit champang borderi femboa bombois so any kind of spirits that are made out of grapes from outside of these regions will not be allowed to be called cognac so now that we have the regions and the grapes we need to transform that into alcohol so first we're going to ferment the grapes to make some wine and then we're going to distill the wine to make some spirit we only gonna distill the spirit twice because the more we distill a spirit the less flavor we get in the end result and here we want to have a refined spirit but we want to keep as much as flavor as possible from the grapes so now we need to age the spirit for at least two years in oak barrels and then we will be able to call that a cognac are you guys following good but we're not done yet so bear with me because this is when the magic happens a bottle of cognac is not just a cognac from one barrel poured into one bottle it is way more complicated than that for example if we take a bottle of nscvs like this one this is a recipe made out of a blend of several different odv so now we still have one more thing to talk about before we jump into the cocktail and it's the expressions of the cognac i'm gonna try to keep it as simple as possible and to do so i'm gonna stick with the three expressions that we see most of the time the vs vsop and exo so what are those i like to say that because cognac is a blend of different cognacs from different age these mansions tell us about the minimum age of cognac in the bottle so today we're going to play with nscvs and nse vsop for me the vs is vanilla ripped fruit flavors subtle oak and floral notes while in the vsop because it is more mature it develops more spices more oak notes while still having those beautiful vanilla and ripped fruit flavors so we are finally ready to make the
START_SPONSOR_TOKEN all right so before we do anything i would love to thank the sponsor of today's episode hennessy if you guys are familiar with this channel you saw me using hennessy several times in my cocktails so it is not a surprise how much i love this cognac so thank you very much guys for allowing me to make this video it also helps me a lot to share my passion for cognac END_SPONSOR_TOKEN