brandy
Brandy usually means "the soul of wine", and the English word "Brandy" is transformed from the Dutch word "Brande".
The term brandy is divided into a narrow sense and a broader sense, from the broad sense, all fruit as raw material fermentation and distillation of wine are called brandy. However, it is now customary to use grapes as raw materials, by fermentation, distillation, storage, blending and made of wine called brandy. If other fruits as raw materials made of distilled spirits, the brandy in front of the name of the fruit, such as apple brandy, cherry brandy and so on.
Brandy originated in France in the early 18th century, when the docks on the Charente River in France became a trading port for the export of alcohol because of the ease of transportation. As the whole case of wine accounted for a lot of space on the ship, the French came up with a double-steaming method to remove the water from the wine, improve the purity of the wine, reduce the space taken up by the ship and facilitate transportation, which is the early brandy. 1701, France was involved in the Spanish War, the sale of brandy was greatly reduced, and the wine was stocked up in the oak barrels. After the end of the war, people found that the storage in oak barrels of brandy, wine quality is more mellow, more aromatic, and there is a crystal amber color, so the world famous brandy was born. Therefore, with oak storage and storage of the years will become an important part of the brewing of brandy.