(Cognac) Salvatore Calabrese. Cognac: A Liquid History. Hardback. Washington Intrepid Kathleen Purvis traveled extensively

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(Cognac) Salvatore Calabrese. Cognac: A Liquid History. Hardback. Washington Intrepid Kathleen Purvis traveled extensivelyIt's called the noble spirit and king of brandies and who better to explain why than the celebrated bartender and world expert on cognac? This royal drink is his obsession, and before you're through with these elegantly illustrated, information filled pages, it will be yours, too. Calabrese introduces the leading families and houses in the business and, decade by decade, gives the fascinating, sinful, and seductive history of cognac. Here, too, are