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		<title>Mexico and Cognac, 1826 to 2026</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Max]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 24 May 2026 17:07:33 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[A 200-year history of the cognac trade between France and Mexico. Merchants, agents, locally bottled imitations, the Vidaurreta 1938 painting, the 1997 protection of the cognac name, and the EU-Mexico agreement signed in Brussels on 22 May 2026. With 17 archival images.]]></description>
		
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		<title>Bourbon Meets Cognac: The Cask-Crossover Reshaping Brown Spirits in 2026</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Taylor]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2026 10:36:26 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Bourbon brands are finishing in cognac casks. Cognac houses are finishing in bourbon casks. The 2026 US crossover guide, with the bottles to try first.]]></description>
		
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		<title>Three Cognac Cocktails Nobody Has Made Yet</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Virginia Wenz]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 17 May 2026 12:21:43 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[We set ourselves a small rule: invent three cognac cocktails that, as far as we can tell, have never been made before. We web searched every recipe. What survived is built around three landscapes of the Charentes: sea, hayfield, and forest.]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Phantom Heist: Fake Trucks, Forged Papers, and the Looting of Cognac</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Max]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2026 12:23:52 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Inside the brazen supply chain fraud targeting France&#8217;s most storied spirit trade On the morning of November 20, 2025, a truck pulled up to the loading dock of Maison Peyrat in Cognac, Charente. The driver was in his thirties and described by witnesses as &#8220;very convincing.&#8221; He had paperwork. Not rough forgeries, but near-perfect imitations [...]]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Cognac Butler</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Max]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2026 12:57:47 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[From August 2023 to April 2025, Cognac-Expert.com operated one of the most specialised AI assistants in the spirits world: The Cognac Butler. This is the story of why we built it, what it could do, and what the query archive taught us about how people actually think about cognac. What Was The Cognac Butler? The [...]]]></description>
		
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		<title>If Cognac Was A Movie (Cannes Festival 2026 Edition)</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Max]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2026 15:22:20 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Cognac Film Festival: 13 Films the Cognac World Would Make Every great cognac house has a story worth telling on screen. A founder who crossed an ocean. A family split between tradition and ambition. A barrel hunter who found something he was never meant to find. A Norwegian who ended up in Jarnac. A [...]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Age Statement in Cognac: It&#8217;s About Time</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Taylor]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2026 11:31:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[It is quite interesting to compare across spirit categories focusing on the notion of age, and how it is communicated on the bottle to the buyer. Scotch whisky makes wide use of the age statement, a statement of years aged in barrel which represents the age of the youngest whisky in the bottle. Rum too [...]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Cognac Cream Soup: When French Brandy Meets the Art of Comfort</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Max]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Feb 2026 12:59:17 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Cognac cream soup is real, and it is better than it sounds on paper. The first time someone suggested finishing a pot of cream soup with Cognac, I pictured a heavy hand and a boozy lunch. What you get, if you use a light touch, is something else entirely, a familiar bowl of comfort with [...]]]></description>
		
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		<title>11 Best Small Producer XO Cognacs – A Family Tasting in our Warehouse</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Virginia Wenz]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Dec 2025 12:52:50 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[We shut the warehouse doors for a few hours, pushed aside a pallet of calendar boxes, and turned our Charente workplace into a makeshift tasting room.Eight of us around the table: Yes, we tasted in the midst of our Black Friday and Christmas madness. Eleven XO Cognacs, all from small or independent houses, all purchased [...]]]></description>
		
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		<title>All About Cognac Cocktails &#8211; including 30 recipes</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Virginia Wenz]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jul 2025 12:53:44 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[30 Cognac cocktails, expert mixing tips and answers to every FAQ—discover how to shake up classic and modern serves at home.]]></description>
		
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