Martell has launched its Single Cru series, with each cognac in the collection sourced from a single terroir.

Modernity has become important across this category, a trend that’s re­flected by the names in this list.

British brandy producer, Burnt Faith, has announced it has raised £2 million in funding to finance future global expansion ambitions.

One name continues to dominate the cognac chart, making it the strongest category leader in this report’s history.

Armagnac producer Bordeneuve Châteaux & Collections has re-entered the US market through a long-term partnership with premium spirits specialist Anthem Imports USA.

St-Rémy French brandy is reducing the weight of its bottles as one of many measures to establish a new gold standard in sustainability.

St-Rémy, the French brandy, is expanding its global strategy St-Rémy Café, with the launch of a selection of warm coffee cocktails created by St-Rémy’s in-house mixologists.

Torres Brandy has revealed its first smoked brandy, the Torres 10 Smoked Barrel, a limited edition that will only be available for a short time. 

St-Rémy Brandy has announced the launch of Finished in Port Casks, a limited-edition, individually numbered bottling of brandy matured in ex-Tawny Port casks.

Hennessy has announced the launch of Hennessy Paradis Golden Edition, a limited-edition release featuring a golden decanter and accompanied by exclusive NFT artwork by Los Angeles-based stylist Veneda Carter.

French Brandy company, St-Rémy, is celebrating the success of its St-Rémy Signature which launched in 2020 and is showing growth in its pioneering markets of Canada, USA and Australia, as it continues to expand into new markets.

Calvados brand Avallen has become a certified B Corporation, a for-profit business that has been verified to meet high standards of social and environmental performance, transparency, and accountability.

Believe it or not, cachaça is the third most popular spirit in the world. In its homeland of Brazil, there are some 5,000 registered brands, with many more unregistered, and 40,000 distilleries.

Our brandy category takes into account any brandy outside the Cognac region and embraces a hugely diverse collection of spirits.

Barsol reigns supreme in the pisco category. The Peruvian brand took a whopping 31% of the first-choice votes and 23% of the top-three pours in the World’s Best Bars.

No brand has had a more dominant performance over the 13 years of the Brands Report than that of Hennessy.

The sales of armagnac blends have increased due to the added exposure brought to them by the pandemic according to Bordeneuve Châteaux & Collections.

Calvados brand Avallen has partnered with National Geographic Traveller Food to launch its new creative campaign designed to drive greater consideration of sustainability and environmental impact within the drinks sector.

The latest duty increase from US authorities on French wine and spirits is “a real economic bomb” for the armagnac industry according to Patrick Farbos, president of BNI Armagnac.

Peruvian Brand Barsol has maintained its seemingly unstoppable dominance of the pisco bestselling list.

Brandy is a global category, with styles emanating from all parts of the world – all parts that grow vines that is. Cognac has been ring-fenced for its own list, enabling us to properly focus on the brandies that have risen to prominence outside of the French region’s glare.

Once again LVMH giant Hennessy has topped our list of the bestselling cognac brands for 2021.

Bordeneuve Châteaux & Collections has announced a record-breaking harvest in terms of both quality and quantity in 2020.

Leading UK spirits distributor Hi Spirits, part of the Sazerac company, has launched Seignette VS, described as ‘a contemporary homage to the original Seignette cognac’, established 200 years ago.

Hennessy has celebrated the 150th anniversary of its X.O blend with the launch of two special release bottle designs.

Seven Tails XO Brandy has launched in the US through Florida-based Shaw-Ross International Importers.

Spanish company Beveland has entered its Brandy Suau into the US market through local company Stollers Imports.

Bordeneuve Châteaux & Collections has signed a contract with one of China’s major importers and distributors from the premium wines and spirits sector.

Cachaça's dependence on the Caipirinha cocktail creates both opportunities and problems for the category.

The ongoing debate over the origins of pisco – and therefore the most authentic choice of brands – will probably never conclude. One thing which cannot be argued is that Chilean pisco is more popular with bartenders than it used to be. 

Torres has been named the bestselling brandy in this year's Brands Report.

Elevated to its own category in the Brands Report, the new cognac list still has a familiar order.

A team of documentary makers from Asia visited Domaine de Bordeneuve to film the distillation process of its armagnac.

Bordeneuve Château & Collections has announced an “abundant” and “impeccable” harvest for its 2019 armagnac vintage.

The Bureau National Interprofessionnel du Cognac has launched a new website which caters to a wider international audience.

The Bureau National Interprofessionnel de l’Armagnac is set to host an Armagnac Academy on Tuesday 8 October at Smith & Wollensky, London.

Jesse Peterson from the Raised By Wolves bar in San Diego has been crowned winner of the Shanghai Shake by Camus cocktail competition.

Bordeneuve Chateaux & Collections has gained an exclusive listing at London’s Bob Bob Cité to create one of the largest restaurant armagnac collections in the world.

Bordeneuve Châteaux & Collections has strengthened its business in Asia through distribution company Exquisite Elixir.

Patrick Farbos has been elected the new president of the Bureau National Interprofessionnel de L’Armagnac for the next three years.

Bordeneuve Châteaux & Collections has expanded its offerings in Poland through listings with Festus outlets.

Hannah Lanfear has been made armagnac educator for the UK and will be working closely with Amanda Garnham of the Bureau National Interprofessionnel de l’Armagnac (BNIA).

The House of Camus has announced the arrival of its Caribbean Expedition in Barbados after a month and a half’s voyage.

At the tail end of 2018, the heads of nine Chinese wine and spirit schools were invited to France to learn about armagnac in order for them to offer their own courses in China.

Armagnac producer Bordeneuve Châteaux & Collections has declared “exceptional quality” for its fresh eau-de-vie and expects distillation for 2018 to finish mid-December.

Armagnac producer Bordeneuve Châteaux & Collections has reported the largest ever harvest in the history of the brand.

Caroline Rozes and her family at Domaine d’Aurensan and Chateau de Léberon have planted all 10 grape varieties legally authorised for the production of AOC armagnac.

The exports of cognac for 2017-18 have increased for the fourth time in a row, rising +8.2% in volume and a +5.4% in value. 

Bordeneuve Châteaux & Collections has joined forces with importer and distributor Exquisite Elixir Co. Ltd to enter into the Thai market.

Courvoisier’s master blender Patrice Pinet believes innovation is still possible within the cognac category, enough to attract single malt whisky consumers.