The Hareng Lucas is an exceptionally stimulating hors-d'oeuvre, and there is a selection of old brandies to choose from as liqueurs which I fancy cannot be surpassed at any restaurant in Paris.
Spanish wines and brandies into England, as it was to be the limit of the duty on English cottons into Spain.
There were also papers on board which proved that this money was to be expended in the purchase of brandies and tea, &c.
The reference belongs to September 24, and shows that a "boarding" boat was desired for going alongside vessels in the Downs, and preventing the running in of brandies along the coast in that vicinity.
Large quantities of French linings, wines, and brandies were being run ashore with impunity and speedily sold in the adjacent towns or conveyed some distance into Devonshire.
The brandies and soda had endowed him with irrepressible cheerfulness.
He was wreathed in smiles now, and had evidently been fortifying himself with brandies and soda.
Brandy of fair quality is also made in other wine-producing countries, particularly in Spain, and of late years colonial (Australian and Cape) brandies have attracted some attention.
The finest brandies are produced in a district covering an area of rather less than three million acres, situated in the departments of Charente and Charente Inferieure, of which the centre is the town of Cognac.
Brandy is also manufactured in numerous other districts in France, and in general order of commercial merit may be mentioned the brandies of Armagnac, Marmande, Nantes and Anjou.
The pre-eminent quality of the Cognac brandies is largely due to the character of the soil, the climate, and the scientific and systematic cultivation of the vines.
Commercial cognac brandies are generally blends of different growths and vintages, the blending being accomplished in large vats some little time prior to bottling.
The brandies commanding the lowest prices are broadly known as the Trois-Six de Monlpellier.
It is generally held that only brandies produced within this district have a right to the name "cognac.
In the case of pale brandies very little colouring and sweetening are added, the usual quantity being in the neighbourhood of 1/2 to 1%.
The brandies of Rochelle and Bordeaux come next in quality; while those obtained from Portugal, Spain, and Italy are very inferior.
Pure brandiesof the best quality, even when new, seldom exceed proof, and are generally a little below it.
The brandies most esteemed in England are imported from France, and are those of Cognac and Armagnac, the preference being generally given to the former.
An empty champagne bottle had just been removed, double liqueurbrandies had taken its place.
Outside, he found Wilmore deep in the discussion of the merits of various old brandies with an interested maitre d'hotel.
The alien introduced them into a small bare room with a single table, a sofa, and a dwarfish fire; and Michael called promptly for more coals and a couple of brandies and sodas.
From these reflections he was aroused by the entrance of the alien with the brandies and sodas.
Carson, haggard-eyed, found the bar, and drank three brandies atop of each other.
He was considering--as well as fury, and surprise, and misery, and four neatbrandies become suddenly potent would let him.
Without my brandies I should not have had the money to buy so many goods, and without the market where I gave ready money for the booty, the soldiers would not have had wherewith to buy my brandy.
The price ofbrandies at Pezenas controls that of all Europe.
I'm afraid I'd had rather too much fizz on top of too many brandies and sodas before supper.
Crowded as the bar was, Maxwell had no difficulty in getting a couple of brandies and a split soda for himself and his companion.
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