BRANDY, a spirituous and inflammable liquor, extracted from wine and other liquors, by distillation. See CHEMISTRY, Of spirituous fermentation, and distilling.
Wine-brandy, made in France, is esteemed the best in Europe. They make it where-ever they make wine,
and for that purpose use wine that is pricked rather than good wine. The chief brandies for foreign trade, and those accounted best, are the brandies of Bourdeaux, Rochelle, Cogniac, Charenton, the isle of Rhe, Orleans, the county of Blaisois, Poitou, Touraine, Anjou, Nantes, Burgundy, and Champagne.