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Northshore October 2025
Please don’t drink cognac from a snifter. Although the classic stereotype is gentleman in a smoking jacket, swirling a brandy snifter by an open fire, the reality is that Cognac, a brandy distilled from grapes produced in a very small region of France, loses some of its fruity subtlety in a wide-rimmed glass. Jeff Kelley, lead bartender at Strega Prime in Woburn, likes to serve it in a tulip-shaped sherry copita or Glencairn glass to help concentrate the complex aromas. “Other styles of glassware often have wider rims, which make the beautiful aromatics dissipate,” he says. Cognac is produced exclusively from specific white wine g
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