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Travel
La Nauve: raise a glass to Cognac’s refined new retreat
...As Charles Baudelaire put it in his poem L’Invitation au voyage: “There, all is order and beauty/Luxury, tranquillity and delight.”...
June 29, 2023
ReviewVisual Arts
Manet/Degas, Musée d’Orsay — a friendship and rivalry which drove art onwards
...His everyday scenes are harsher, bleaker: the implicit violence in the claustrophobic “Interior (The Rape)”; “L’Absinthe”, the desolate woman at a bar — answered by Manet’s “Plum Brandy”, featuring the same...
April 26, 2023
FT Live
FTWeekend Festival
Where the FT Weekend paper comes to life
Saturday, 7 September London, UK
HTSIThe HTSI holiday food and drink guide
The new cool of cognac
...At Chicago cocktail bar After, fine and rare brandies are also on display....
December 20, 2022
FT Magazine
The secrets of the French 75, the world’s most elusive cocktail
...Images of it appeared on romantic postcards (L’Artillerie de L’Amour) and on postcards the military gave to servicemen to send home from the front....
December 29, 2022
FT SeriesAutumn Food & Drink Special
The wonders of non-alcoholic cocktails
...Oak-aged pear juice, served in a brandy balloon, brought mellow sweetness to a sticky onion tarte Tatin topped with Dorstone goat’s cheese....
October 1, 2021
The Aesthete
Video games and vintage furniture: at home with French musician Woodkid
...The grooming staple I’m never without is L’Eau d’Ambre Extrême by L’Artisan Parfumeur....
November 19, 2020
FT Live
Business of Art
Market shifts and future growth
Monday, 7 October180 Studios, London, UK
Lunch with the FT
Pierre Lagrange: ‘What I’ve done is disruption with respect’
...He bought it with his then boyfriend, the designer Roubi L’Roubi, whose ideas did not go down well in the staid world of bespoke tailoring....
September 13, 2019
FT MagazineJancis Robinson
Why sherry needs more love
...The current owner of the Domecq bodega in Jerez’s beautiful and increasingly valuable old town is Andrew L Tan, Chinese owner of Emperador, the world’s biggest-selling brandy....
September 30, 2016
LexEuropean companies
Rémy Cointreau: not just China
...Newish chief executive Valérie Chapoulaud-Floquet (ex-L’Oréal and LVMH), might offer more news shortly after at an investor day....
October 9, 2015
Life & Arts
The à la car menu
...Meanwhile, on a spirit lamp at the table, begin reducing red wine, port and brandy in a silver sauté pan....
July 31, 2015
Observations
Jonathan Meades: kitchen-sink dreamer
...At weekends he would add a shot of brandy or rum. The latter came in handy at Christmas. He was wedded to tradition but disliked its flavour....
April 4, 2014
Life & Arts
New tour offers a taste of Cognac’s traditions
...It’s surprising how easy it is to open a barrel of prized brandy....
November 29, 2013
InterviewFT Magazine
FT Foodies: Pierre Koffmann
...Then there are the puddings – prunes à l’eau de vie, greengage plums in brandy and sugar, croustade aux pommes. All those tastes are still in my mouth and my brain. What’s a typical Gascon feast?...
September 28, 2012
Czech Republic business & finance
Deaths prompt Czech liquor ban
...Eight people were hospitalised in Slovakia over the weekend after drinking Czech cherry brandy, but the country has not restricted imports of Czech alcohol....
September 17, 2012
ObituaryUK schools
Zimbabwe’s first black Rhodes scholar
...“Why, I’m the butler,” was Hatendi’s response, to which the policeman asked, what was the butler doing with a large glass of brandy in one hand, and a cigar in the other?...
March 23, 2012
FT Live
FTWeekend Festival: U.S. edition
Where the Financial Times weekend paper comes to life
Saturday, 4 MayThe REACH, at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, F Street Northwest, Washington, DC, USA
ReviewLife & Arts
Simon Schama on Joseph Roth
...At a restaurant in the Hirtenstrasse, the Berlin district flooded with displaced, impoverished Jews from the east, Roth finds one L....
March 2, 2012
FT Magazine
Unforgiven, unforgotten, unresolved: Bosnia 20 years on
...Over the inevitable shot of plum brandy, he tells of his family’s brush with death at the hands of a Bosniak band....
March 23, 2012
FT Magazine
Who stole the Mona Lisa?
...Over brandies, the Marques had told Decker that Peruggia had merely been an agent in the Marques’ own perfect crime....
August 5, 2011
Rowley Leigh
Get to grips with a pincer movement
...If homard à l’Americaine is a bit old hat, sauce Americaine is alive and kicking....
June 5, 2010
Harry EyresLife & Arts
Spirits and spirituality
...If wine makes glad the heart of man, then brandy makes it doubly merry, and healthy....
April 3, 2010
Life & Arts
Armagnac and its brandy
...Harry Eyres travelled as a guest of the Bureau National Interprofessionnel de l’Armagnac Harry Eyres: Florence and the good life ……………………………………………………………….....
August 1, 2009
Life & Arts
A quiet culinary revolution
...For his wide-ranging menu anchored on local produce (“c’est l’orgueuil de Charlevoix – the pride of Charl-evoix!”)...
August 23, 2008
Life & Arts
Black holes – the naked truth
...The key was the discovery of a new enzyme, GDP-L-galactose phosphorylase, which is responsible for the production of vitamin C in plants....
October 6, 2007
Life & Arts
When only the finest will do
...Flouting Yuletime convention, last year I served marron parfait (a River Café-made-easy recipe) garlanded with L'Artisan du Chocolat's gleefully luxurious and luscious marron glacé....
November 26, 2004

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