What is Martell?

the name of the company who produce the drinks? What is cordon blue? and the different between cognac, XO, whiskey? Which one is the best? The most expensive?|||The answerer above me told you what Martell is: it's a brand of French Cognac. There are typically three grades of Cognac. From lowest to the highest they are: VS, VSOP, XO, then proprietary labels like Cordon Bleu, Louis XIII, Napoleon, etc. XO and the Cordon Bleu are outlandishly expensive -- I was at a restaurant recently where the Cordon Bleu cost $250 a shot! Stick with VS until you decide if you like Cognac. Having tried the XO, I think it's overpriced. I'm quite content with the VSOP as the best match of quality and expense.





And Cognac really has nothing to do with whiskey. Whiskey is essentially fermented and distilled grains, while cognac is made from grapes. They are both aged in oak barrels, but the similarity ends there.|||Martell is a leading manufacturer of Cognac, founded by Jean Martell in 1715. It was sold in 1988 by the Firino-Martell family to Seagram and again in 2002 to the Pernod Ricard Group, which also owns the Cognac brands Biscuit and Renault[1].





The cellar master was, up to the 1980s, from the family Chapeau (in the way the cellar masters of Hennessy are from the family Fillioux).





Martell attaches importance to produce pure, soft, neutral Cognacs; thus it does not distill lees in the wine. Preferred are casks made from Tron莽ais oak, which is darker, with narrow pores, less tannin and more lignin, than Limousin-oak, resulting in less "wooden" aromas in the Cognac.





Much of Martell Cognac is produced from wine from the Borderies region, in contrast to other companies, which mainly sell fine Champagne Cognac. Borderies Cognac has a more nutty taste.





External links





* Martell-Homepage





References





* Translated from the German Cognac page cognacguide.com