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 wherever 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 Bordeaux, Rochelle, Cognac, Charenton, the isle of Rho, Orleans, the county of Blaisois, Poitou, Touraine, Anjou, Nantes, Burgundy, and Champagne.