Holiday shopping season extends well beyond video games, gaudy sweaters and plasma TV sets. Take the spirits industry, for example.
Tag: cognac
Dowd on Drinks: 2 Million Reasons This Cognac Is World Class
The latest entry in the adult beverage world’s “most expensive product” category comes in the Cognac subdivision.

Jody’s Jam of The Week
Cognac Tasting, January 30 at Alliance Française, Washington DC
Dowd on Drinks: Nothing Personal, It’s Just Business
We may talk of the romanticism of the cocktail hour, the gusto of the beer party, the scintillating conversation sparked by fine wines, but at the end of the day it’s all a business.
Dowd On Drinks: But Is It Beer?
Non-carbonated. Resealable bottle. Aged in used sherry or bourbon barrels.
Dowd on Drinks: Elderflower Liquer Is All New
A fleet of bicycles and bunches of sambucas nigra, a dainty white flower that blossoms for only a few days in early spring, seem an unlikely combination to bring something truly new to the adult beverage universe.
Dowd On Drinks: Planet Cognac
LAS VEGAS — As we were assembling for a private dinner over the weekend, I was chatting with Frank Du, a Chinese-American journalist who works for a Chinese-language newspaper in Los Angeles.