Cognac is a spirit with two sides. On the one hand, it’s a distillate that understandably carries a certain verve: it’s French, historic and closely linked to luxury. Once the favored tipple of Napoleon, today Cognac often features in verses from popular hip-hop artists, its close ties to wealth doing plenty of lifting there.
Despite all this free promotion, cognac could also be considered an underappreciated tipple. The year so far has been a particularly bumpy one for the…

