If you are used to the taste of brandy, it is highly recommended that you taste the original flavor. First, pour the brandy into a cup, and it is better not to exceed half a cup. First, gently smell its smell and appreciate its aroma. Raise the glass and slowly enter the mouth, and feel the fragrance and impact of brandy with your throat and tip of your tongue. Because of the high degree of wine, if you feel throat discomfort, you can drink water appropriately to relieve it.
Some friends may not accept the impact of brandy, so we can add drinks, soda, fruit juice, etc. when tasting, enjoy the combination of wine's mellow aroma and various fruit juices, and also enjoy the collision between black tea, soda and other drinks and high-grade foreign wine, which will definitely give you a brand-new experience.
Adding ice cubes to brandy XO will make you feel different. First, pour the wine into a cup, preferably no more than 3 1 cup, and then add ice cubes. First, you can enjoy the cold wine aroma and bring you being relaxed and free in hot summer. Second, with the melting of ice cubes, the taste of wine will be different. This is a very wonderful experience.
Grading of XO
XO is short for extra old: it means that wine has been stored in wooden barrels for at least ten years, and it refers to the best brandy. So XO refers not to a certain wine, but to the grade of brandy year.
Brandy needs to be graded according to the aging year. Many countries produce brandy, and French brandy is the most famous. According to the quality and aging time of wine, the classification of French brandy is divided into Samsung (low grade), VO (middle grade), VSOP (high grade), FOV (high grade), XO (special grade) and EXTRA (extra grade). Generally, brandy aged in wooden barrels for more than ten years is called XO, but many wine merchants will use cognac aged for 20 years or more to make it.