'Seasonal Strengths' by Andrew Jefford

' Tesseron Lot 90 (40%, Corney & Barrow) is a feistier, sweeter mouthful, and a perfect Cognac for mixing.

If money is still less of an object, Tesseron Lot 29 Exception (40%, Corney & Barrow) will prove just how conclusively great brandy, like great wine, can absorb, modulate and reflect a kind of mineral beauty in the midst of all its other, more freshly sensual attractions: layered amid the fig, the beech leaf, and the cream there's a kind of stony fire that glows for 30 seconds after you've swallowed. '