{"id":5075,"date":"2023-08-27T23:28:24","date_gmt":"2023-08-27T23:28:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.davedrinksbeer.com\/?post_type=embm_beer&#038;p=5075"},"modified":"2023-08-28T02:48:45","modified_gmt":"2023-08-28T02:48:45","slug":"courvoisier-vsop","status":"publish","type":"embm_beer","link":"https:\/\/www.davedrinksbeer.com\/index.php\/beers\/courvoisier-vsop\/","title":{"rendered":"Courvoisier &#8211; VSOP"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_5076\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5076\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5076\" src=\"https:\/\/www.davedrinksbeer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/PSX_20230827_191702-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.davedrinksbeer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/PSX_20230827_191702-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.davedrinksbeer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/PSX_20230827_191702-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.davedrinksbeer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/PSX_20230827_191702-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/www.davedrinksbeer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/PSX_20230827_191702-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.davedrinksbeer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/PSX_20230827_191702-1240x1653.jpg 1240w, https:\/\/www.davedrinksbeer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/PSX_20230827_191702-508x677.jpg 508w, https:\/\/www.davedrinksbeer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/PSX_20230827_191702-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-5076\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.courvoisier.com\/cognac-collection\/vsop\">Courvoisier VSOP<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Smells of fresh picked wildflowers, honey, and maple syrup with a mild booziness. The taste is lightly sweet with flavors of apple, pear, vanilla cream, fig, and cherry. The finish is long and has a mild burn, featuring notes of oak, champagne, vanilla, brown sugar, and leather. Overall, a very complex cognac that&#8217;s smooth and pleasing to the palate, without being too oak forward, and while the Hennessy VSOP was just a little bit smoother to sip on, I do prefer the brighter, fruitier flavor of this.<\/p>\n<p>A sidecar has a delightful burst of fruit flavor, lemon and orange of course, but also grape and apple and plum; very enjoyable.<\/p>\n<p>A Cognac Jack tastes like lemon, grenadine and Werther&#8217;s candies; quite unique and delicious.<\/p>\n<p>A Cognac Jack has flavors of vanilla, brown sugar, and creamy aged champagne underneath the apple and lemon flavors.<\/p>\n<p>An Old Fashioned strikes the perfect balance between sweet fruit, aromatic spices, and dry oak. I would venture to guess that the Courvoisier VS, which I haven&#8217;t had, would be better for cocktails similar to the Hennessy VS, but this VSOP is able to stand out just enough in most cocktails, while also being a superb sipping spirit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":5077,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","embm_styles":[255],"embm_groups":[],"embm_menus":[],"class_list":["post-5075","embm_beer","type-embm_beer","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","embm_style-cognac"],"embm_profile":{"malts":"A blend of eau de vie from the Borderies, Petite Champagne, Grande Champagne, and Fins Bois","hops":"&quot;Aged up to twelve years&quot; in Limousin oak casks ","additions":"","yeast":"","abv":40,"ibu":null},"embm_extras":{"availability":"","notes":"","beer_number":null},"embm_untappd":{"id":null},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davedrinksbeer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/embm_beers\/5075","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davedrinksbeer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/embm_beers"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davedrinksbeer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/embm_beer"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davedrinksbeer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5075"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.davedrinksbeer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/embm_beers\/5075\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5084,"href":"https:\/\/www.davedrinksbeer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/embm_beers\/5075\/revisions\/5084"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davedrinksbeer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davedrinksbeer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"embm_style","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davedrinksbeer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/embm_styles?post=5075"},{"taxonomy":"embm_group","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davedrinksbeer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/embm_groups?post=5075"},{"taxonomy":"embm_menu","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davedrinksbeer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/embm_menus?post=5075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}