Building on insights from my attendance of the BAC/BACS 2024 conference, let’s explore how archives can create value for drinks companies.

In this article we will look into how a deadly louse from America has almost killed cognac and reshaped the world of spirits.

It is a common belief that distilling industry was in place in Armagnac way earlier than in Cognac. But is this actually so?

Although early French brandy trade is usually associated with foreign demand, eighteenth-century Parisians also regularly drank spirits.

The Dutch played a key role in the emergence of cognac. But how did this occur? What was it exactly that they did? When? And why the Dutch?