Brandy Does Not Want to Be Whiskey
The bourbon-ification of Armagnac is a terrible trend.
As a long-time lover of Armagnac, as an Armagnac critic, and as someone who was told (by a major importer) that Armagnac sales “went up tenfold” after I published an explainer on Armagnac in the New York Times — I feel I have earned the right to occasionally hold forth on Gascony’s esteemed brandy.
So, I’m just going to put this righ…