The code of practice:
A tasting carried out in the code of practice by a professional consists in seeking in a very precise way all the characteristics of the cognac. While initiating itself somewhat with this art, an amateur can, while learning how to recognize flavours and savours, to combine with leisure the pleasures of the sight, the sense of smell and the taste.

The tasting of a Cognac starts above all with the choice of glass which will make it possible brandy to express all its qualities.
Today, glass recommended by the experts is glass tulip, with the learnedly studied form; It indeed has the advantage of retaining the flavours and progressively of releasing them with much delicacy with tasting. Glass tulip of a large smoothness will make it possible, moreover, to appreciate the color and the consistency of brandy


Au nez et à l'oeil.
Before discovering all refinements of the Cognac, a taster will take pleasure to seek by the sight and the sense of smell of invaluable indications. The appearance of the Cognac gives a first indication on its viscosity and its limpidity. As soon as glass of the nose is approached, the most volatile perfumes escape: it is the rising one. After a delicate movement of rotation of glass, it is the essence of the bouquet of the Cognac which appears. One finds floral or fruity odors there such as: dried lime, flower of vine, dry vine shoot, pressed grape, violet, vanilla... it is the second nose.


The palate of the wonders.
It is in contact with the language and of the palate that the Cognac reveals its identity. Its erudite flavours combine with its savour to give the taste. The consumer perceives as of this moment all that makes the personality of the product: roundness, marrowy, consistency, smoothness, lightness, pride, rancio, harmony... as many feelings which make it possible each one to recognize and to appreciate its preferred Cognac.


Tasting constistue, in complement of the chemical analyses, the fiaible method to appreciate and offer to the consomateurs products with irreproachable quality. It will thus act, thanks to this sensory examination, to control the various stages of distillation, to follow the evolution of ageing, or to carry out the assemblies necessary to making of the cognac and, finally, to appreciate the characteristics of the end product put on the market.