a spirituous and inflammable liquor, extracted from wine and other liquors by distillation. See Distillation.

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 Rhe, Orleans, the county of Blafois, Poitou, Touraine, Anjou, Nantz, Burgundy, and Champagne.