Taylor C.
Reviews written: 50
Average Score given: 87
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French wine, and the concept of terroir, captured my interest early on. Naturally, curiosity took me to spirits, in particular Cognac. Today I'm proud to be a member of the Cognac Expert team managing B2B projects, working on Cognac Expert Originals, and writing bottle reviews for the English Blog. I love to taste anything and everything - rum/rhum, whisky(ey), Armagnac, etc. - but no other spirit grabs my attention quite like Cognac, and all of its subtleties and nuance. Santé !
Review list
A. de Vacqueur Fins Bois Lot 34
Smells really really good. It's a nose that calls one into the glass, not shouting out to the drinker. Seemingly very mature and complex - not fair to try and pick it apart from just one sitting as I am doing now. Notes: beautiful old antique wood, rancio, Amaro with its orange-y bitter herbal wo...
Richard Delisle Selection d'Alexis
Quite an extroverted nose and a very loaded/charged nose showcasing all sorts of aromas. Candied and dried fruit - really nothing fresh about the fruits here. On the road to heavy rancio. A dank musty dam earth humid cellar, what I imagine the cellar this one aged in smells like. A shade or darke...
Marancheville Beyond Age Lot 65-78
Beautiful, pristine nose. Extremely clean and pure. Absolutely nothing obscures from the pretty floral peachy fruit - and that fruit is there in abundance in all shapes and sizes, with drippy ooozy juice. Faint touch of vanilla and interestingly an absence of oak. Maybe also a little miel de fleu...
Louis Bouron XO Cognac
Relative to the Grande Reserve and the Tres Vieille Reserve, this is the lightest and most delicate, showing more finesse, which is interesting given that it is the oldest of the lot. Nice syrupy texture. More dainty and soft-spoken. More delicate, syrupy, honeyed fruits: yellow plums, mirabe...
Louis Bouron Tres Vieille Reserve
Wowza! A chest thumper here! Deep, dark, dense, and rich. Spicy, toasty, and roasty. Assertive. Fresh fruit is nowhere to be found. Notes of chocolate, spice, roasted coffee bean, leather, dried red fruits, walnut, tobacco, and vanilla. If one is into the style it ticks all the boxes. The produce...