Is This The Year We Finally Fall In Love With Brandy?

Is Armagnac really the "next mezcal"? Will Calvados ever find love? Among other hopeful questions from Bar Convent Brooklyn.

So I’m just home from a chaotic week at Bar Convent Brooklyn. I haven’t attended a big spirits industry event in several years, and I forgot about how easily one gets sucked into a swirling vortex. One moment you’re sitting calmly in a seminar, blending some pot-still batches of Chairman’s Reserve St. Lucia rum, and seemingly the next moment you’re at a…