Legend runs as follows that having left the service the sear de la Croix took up wine distillation

Once at night he saw a dream in which a devil twice thrown him into a boiling water, to take away his soul. On a morning the sear decided to apply technology of double boiling in brandy distilling. Filled with the drink two oak casks were left in Renorvil' monastery. Monks ravaged the first cask at once and the second cask was stored. They remembered about it only fifteen years later when the sear visited monks again. To his surprise the cask was half empty. But due to the evaporation the drink had new saturated and mature taste. So brandy was born.

Brandy is the youngest from all of the known drinks. And although the wine spirits which it is made of were known yet to the ancient Greeks the history of this elite drink counts only 300 years.

First on the land where brandy is distilled now viticulture appeared in the last fourth of the 3d age when the Roman emperor Probus let Gauls to be engaged in the vine making that was spread only in few cities. At the beginning of XVII age the process of distillation used by alchemists and chemists for the receipt of alcohol in medical aims was firstly used in large scales in the vine making. And in 1641 by the French skilled craftsmen from a department of Sharanta the special distilling machine was invented for receiving from brandy alcohol the basic raw material for the brandy distilling. From that moment vine-makers learned how to get the new drink.

A little later at the end of XVII age the first brandy houses were created some of them exist till now.

In the 1701 in the French-English war-time the English fleet blocked France cutting transporting of brandy alcohols. They had to languish in oak casks for a long time, but as a result of the protracted maturing its taste qualities were only improved. So was opened one of basic secrets of brandy distilling technology.

Till the 1860 year brandy was transported exceptionally in casks and the name of producer remained unknown for a consumer. Then they were supplied in original bottles with firm labels. Nowadays brandy trade is getting up. The universally recognized country of classic brandy production is France its experience is carefully studied and used in many countries of the world.

It is said that all inhabitants of the French department Sharanta are long-livers. They feel themselves unusually easily and keep active way of life. And all this is because of the necessary drinking of brandy.

This divine drink hides in itself the great number of useful for the human organism properties. If every night you have to wait for a sleep for hours brandy with mineral water or warm milk will help you. With the lowered tone of organism, connected with low blood pressure brandy is also recommended. If you have such state quite rarely medical dose is 25 g. If an indisposition from low pressure visits you regularly it is necessary to complete a course treatment during two or three weeks. But then a dose must be decreased to one or two teaspoons of brandy in your tea.

This noble drink is considered to be the effective mean of gums strengthening as it contains tannic matters. For the prophylaxis of parodontosis it is possible to rinse a mouth with brandy one time a day.

Long-term experience on brandy production showed that 25-30 ml of soft vintage brandy take off the spasms of stomach, improve and stimulate an appetite. And salt solution of brandy with camomile decoction is a wonderful fastening and sedative mean at disorder of intestine. There is no more popular drink among others than brandy. It occupies the special position conditioned by its high taste dignities and useful qualities.