When it comes to brandy, producers are upping their game with premium variants and innovative production methods. The Spirits Business held its annual Brandy Masters last month, where an experienced panel of judges recognised the best bottlings in the business.

There’s no better way to bond with your favourite spirit than to visit the place where it was made.

When it comes to food and drink pairing, wine is often the beverage you’d think of first. But matching food with spirits, such as brandy and gin & tonic, is rising in popularity.

Fight off the winter chill in the most decadent way with hot drinking chocolate and fine brandy cocktails, while raising a toast to World Chocolate Day on 7 July.

Brandy is enjoyed in many forms – on its own in a brandy balloon, with a single ice-cube, with a mixer such as ginger ale or coke or in a cocktail with myriad ingredients.

Join the worldwide celebration of one of the most classic cocktails of all time – the Brandy Alexander. Wednesday, January 31 is International Brandy Alexander Day, and Distell premium brandy believes this a perfectly sound reason to raise a Brandy Alexander to toast, if nothing else, the only cocktail to have a day officially named in its honour.

With the recent explosion of premium Gin on the spirits scene, we take a look at what exactly it is, and what else you should be trying.

Peach brandy is basically a mixture of fruit and sugar. When left alone for a while, it will ferment and produce a peach flavoured alcoholic liquid.

A global awakening of interest in craft distilled spirits is drastically changing the landscape for brandy, one of the oldest and most noble of them all.