1869 Cooling Cups and Dainty drinks by William Terrington

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vie premiere, ancl is remarkable for its delicate rich bouquet and flavour, rendering it pre-eminent above

: this quality, when kept in casks,

brandies

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assumes The second dis- tillation, or common Brandy, is an inferior produce, being rarely exported : it is known as eau de vie ordinaire ; it is made from spoilt or inferior red or white wines, and constitutes the French Brandy in ordinary use. Eau de vie d’Aisne is synonymous with eau de vie de marc, the inferior spirit already noticed. Eau de vie d’Andaye, is remarkable for its a choice and excellent Brandy, and often imitated by mixing a quart of good old Cognac with \ gill distilled aniseed water, and f gill of clear syrup. A few fennel seeds, steeped in ordinary Brandy, is called eau de vie de Rhe. The Brandies of Rochelle, Bordeaux, Languedoc, and others, are good French Brandies, which are superior to the Brandies of Italy, Spain, and other countries : eveiy soil, climate, and grape varies, as regards quality of yield of Brandy. Foreign Brandy is generally overproof. A great desideratum among distillers in this country is to a pale amber colour. peculiar fennel-like odour ; it is