1938 Famous New Orleans Drinks and how to mix'em (3rd printing) by Stanley Clisby Arthur

"Buy any brand-wine, buy any brand-wine?" London street cry, 1622 Brandy Drinks

The name brandy comes from Old Dutch Brandtvtjn, meaning "burnt (i.e. distilled) wine," and to the end of the 17th century the old original form, "brandy-wine" was used. Properly, brandy is an ardent spirit distilled from wine, although similar liquors distilled from fer mented juice of peaches, cherries, apples, or other fruits, are also called brandies . . . such as peach brandy. Genuine cognac is recognized as the finest of brandies and was called cognac from the fact that a superior brandy is produced at or near the town of Cognac in the Charente region of France, center of a famous grape growing territory. For the same reason brandy is better known today as cognac in its native land than by its ori ginal French name of eau-de-vie. In the United States it is usually called "cognac brandy." While the term cognac is loosely applied to any French brandy, it should be borne in mind that all brandy is not cognac. Among the better known cognacs are those of Martell, established in 1715, and that produced by the firm of James Hennessy, whose bottles carry the familiar "three-star" designation. In 1765 the original James Hen nessy, an Irish adventurer, offered his sword in service to the French king, and during his fighting days was stationed in the Charente valley where he became en amored of the excellent brandy there produced. When swords were sheathed, Hennessy settled in this vineyard country and became a grape-grower, a brandy-distiller, and a cognac-bottler. "I was entertained, tvith Kisses fine, and Brandy Wine." 1719. Seventy-two