Hi Steve, we buy the ordinary St Remy, for cooking and my cocktails. My wife has Courvousier for sipping. As mentioned before I also use in cocktails Sainsburys own cognac. Nick from York
Interesting to see the prices you found because here in the midwestern U.S. the St-Remy VSOP is consistently $15 and the XO is only $21. I have both myself; the VSOP was too harsh and young tasting to my palate but the XO is absolutely gorgeous and something I can happily sip. I'll have to try the XO in a proper sidecar to compare against my current sidecar base, which is Courvoisier VS.
I’m also in the Midwest US and have seen these St-Remy bottles on shelves, but always assumed they were not very good quality. I guess I’ll need to try one in place of my standard Courvoisier VS Sidecar recipe. Thanks for the info.
You are correct! 1.75l wasn't my intention, I thought they were 750ml (we're 700ml over here), but after just looking closer, yeah, they're 1.75l. We don't get those sizes here, so i never noticed. It's just a straight 70cl bottle size across every spirit brand & category. (I use Total Wines, and set location to New York).
i got like 4-5 bottles of that st remy vsop, they are like 12~13 euros here in serbia for some reason, probably the best value for money bottle you can find in the market. and i literally mean that, its actually in every supermarket, no need to even order it online. btw fun fact, serbia has a congac knockoff called "vinjak" (read vignac, analogous to cognac). the cheap ones are absolutely horrible, and yes there are XO's, but lets just say that if you bought a vinjak, you probably arent much into XO's. buying an XO vinjak over a default brandy is like fully pimping a yugo 45 instead of just buying a normal car
@@brandycognaccalvados LOL that would be a good episode to watch! its a legendary drink in serbia, albeit for all the wrong reasons, as cheap ones are used to get drunk before a party (the jose cuervo of the balkans) and the XOs are hard to find so no one actually knows how the good stuff tastes (me included). and maybe thats for the best, it just adds to the legend!
Seriously thinking of trying out St. Remy. Can't seem to get XO at TMW, but the VSOP is $15.49 for 750ml. I have tried ABK VS & VSOP, Hennessy VS & VSOP, Remy Martin 1738 and A De Fussigny Selection Cognac and will say A De Fussigny Selection was by far my favorite based on taste and price. It's $34.99 in my local area, and very slightly above Remy Martin 1738, but the 1738 costs $55.49 a 750ml bottle!. For price point, going to see how St. Remy VSOP taste.
Back in the 90's, for a special occasion I treated myself to a bottle of Hennessey XO, which I paid around $150 for, 27 years ago. Over the course of an evening I drank most of the bottle. The next afternoon I crawled out of bed with the most Godawful horrendous hangover that I've ever experienced. That was my last experience with fine cognac.
Hi Steve. I've been looking to get into cognac for a while now, but there aren't many options available in Ireland other than the big 4, and tbh I find those fairly expensive. On average they're about €45 for a VS and €70 for a VSOP. That's way more expensive than whiskies of an equivalent quality. As I'm on the lookout for a decent budget brandy, I'll probably give St-Remy a go, thanks. Have you tried Tesco's own brand stuff? If so, what are your thoughts?
No, not tried Supermarket stuff for a long while. Probably won't for a while, simply cos only a small part of my audience is UK. So doing a Tesco own brand is largely irrelevant to 80% of the people watching.
@@brandycognaccalvados yeah I figured you wouldn't want to make a video on supermarket brandies for that reason. I was just hoping you'd have something to say in the comments. Thanks anyway though.
I like to get pissed on St Remy XO and also ALDI's own Cognac, usually available for the same price of £20. Both good sippers for the money so much so that i've given up my expensive Scotch habit.
Hi Steve, I want to suggest you that maybe don’t cut the scene when you drink your tasty brandy because for me we are enjoying when just look at you drink it and maybe has a good expression from your face 😁 btw just my personal suggestion 😊
I hear ya. Honestly. And we're getting there. However, because of the new Shorts/Reels (60 second or less content) the vast majority of people want fast paced. Words and scene changes every 3-5 seconds. So long silences while I'm tasting...due to viewing signals (algorithm)...can literally mean the difference at my level from a video getting 300 views, or a video getting 2000 videos. If a video gets longer watch time and higher audience retention, RUclips pushes it more. If it was up to me, I wouldn't even edit videos. But unfortunately, 95% of the audience won't watch that. (on a bigger scale...its why bigger channels, some of their videos get 200,000+ views and some only 25,000.) All this said, Viewing RUclips on TV is growing and growing...meaning people don't scroll as much. So we're slowly getting to a point where in maybe a 12-24 months, those pauses while tasting will actually work. but we're not there yet! (and if you're thinking Ralfy does it...yup...100% agree...but he's had his 100,000+ audience for the best part of a decade! - Pre Shorts/Reels, 60 second content, even being a thing 😂 So his viewers are pre conditioned to not want quick videos...and RUclips knows not to show his videos to people who do what fast paced).
XO is pretty much an over rated drink IMO, I like Remy VSOP, but for those of us who are English Sainsbury did a own brand cognac VSOP that was indistiguishable from Remy VSOP, but thats not available anymore, but Tesco do a VSOP which is nearly as good for £24 and thats my go to cognac, I've bought a bottle of Jean Grosperrin cognac for £200 a bottle and that was genuinely sublime, (it was a retirement treat), but for day to day sipping I will have a bottle of Tesco supermarket VSOP, P.S. Aldi Chevalier at £19 is perfectly acceptable as well.
See I’m actually intrigued to dive into Supermarket “Cognac”. Cos at the end of the day, to be called Cognac, it has to adhere to the rules and ages. It can’t just been random cheapo leftover grapes and mass produced on dodgy stills…like supermarket Vodka/Gin…and to a certain extent Rum.
Hi Steve, we buy the ordinary St Remy, for cooking and my cocktails. My wife has Courvousier for sipping. As mentioned before I also use in cocktails Sainsburys own cognac.
Nick from York
Snob
Cuando pueda pruebe el Brandy Luis Felipe , o el Brandy gran reserva 1886 de las bodegas Larios , seguro que le gustará un saludo desde Málaga 😊☺️☺️😊
Just got a bottle of st remy xo for $20 bucks. Found it a bit mild compare to other fancy XO congic. It is like a hennessy vsop with water added.
Martell VSOP is a excellent balance quality cognac as per value.
Interesting to see the prices you found because here in the midwestern U.S. the St-Remy VSOP is consistently $15 and the XO is only $21. I have both myself; the VSOP was too harsh and young tasting to my palate but the XO is absolutely gorgeous and something I can happily sip. I'll have to try the XO in a proper sidecar to compare against my current sidecar base, which is Courvoisier VS.
I’m also in the Midwest US and have seen these St-Remy bottles on shelves, but always assumed they were not very good quality. I guess I’ll need to try one in place of my standard Courvoisier VS Sidecar recipe. Thanks for the info.
You are correct! 1.75l wasn't my intention, I thought they were 750ml (we're 700ml over here), but after just looking closer, yeah, they're 1.75l. We don't get those sizes here, so i never noticed. It's just a straight 70cl bottle size across every spirit brand & category. (I use Total Wines, and set location to New York).
i got like 4-5 bottles of that st remy vsop, they are like 12~13 euros here in serbia for some reason, probably the best value for money bottle you can find in the market. and i literally mean that, its actually in every supermarket, no need to even order it online. btw fun fact, serbia has a congac knockoff called "vinjak" (read vignac, analogous to cognac). the cheap ones are absolutely horrible, and yes there are XO's, but lets just say that if you bought a vinjak, you probably arent much into XO's. buying an XO vinjak over a default brandy is like fully pimping a yugo 45 instead of just buying a normal car
Hahaha, I'll look out for some XO Vinjak
@@brandycognaccalvados LOL that would be a good episode to watch! its a legendary drink in serbia, albeit for all the wrong reasons, as cheap ones are used to get drunk before a party (the jose cuervo of the balkans) and the XOs are hard to find so no one actually knows how the good stuff tastes (me included). and maybe thats for the best, it just adds to the legend!
Seriously thinking of trying out St. Remy. Can't seem to get XO at TMW, but the VSOP is $15.49 for 750ml. I have tried ABK VS & VSOP, Hennessy VS & VSOP, Remy Martin 1738 and A De Fussigny Selection Cognac and will say A De Fussigny Selection was by far my favorite based on taste and price. It's $34.99 in my local area, and very slightly above Remy Martin 1738, but the 1738 costs $55.49 a 750ml bottle!. For price point, going to see how St. Remy VSOP taste.
Back in the 90's, for a special occasion I treated myself to a bottle of Hennessey XO, which I paid around $150 for, 27 years ago. Over the course of an evening I drank most of the bottle. The next afternoon I crawled out of bed with the most Godawful horrendous hangover that I've ever experienced. That was my last experience with fine cognac.
Hi Steve. I've been looking to get into cognac for a while now, but there aren't many options available in Ireland other than the big 4, and tbh I find those fairly expensive. On average they're about €45 for a VS and €70 for a VSOP. That's way more expensive than whiskies of an equivalent quality. As I'm on the lookout for a decent budget brandy, I'll probably give St-Remy a go, thanks. Have you tried Tesco's own brand stuff? If so, what are your thoughts?
No, not tried Supermarket stuff for a long while. Probably won't for a while, simply cos only a small part of my audience is UK. So doing a Tesco own brand is largely irrelevant to 80% of the people watching.
@@brandycognaccalvados yeah I figured you wouldn't want to make a video on supermarket brandies for that reason. I was just hoping you'd have something to say in the comments. Thanks anyway though.
I like to get pissed on St Remy XO and also ALDI's own Cognac, usually available for the same price of £20. Both good sippers for the money so much so that i've given up my expensive Scotch habit.
Its posible you teste Danijel Boyuo Xo carafe...?!..
Picked up a bottle of XO from Costco for $20. Can't wait to try it.
Hi Steve, I want to suggest you that maybe don’t cut the scene when you drink your tasty brandy because for me we are enjoying when just look at you drink it and maybe has a good expression from your face 😁 btw just my personal suggestion 😊
I hear ya. Honestly. And we're getting there. However, because of the new Shorts/Reels (60 second or less content) the vast majority of people want fast paced. Words and scene changes every 3-5 seconds. So long silences while I'm tasting...due to viewing signals (algorithm)...can literally mean the difference at my level from a video getting 300 views, or a video getting 2000 videos. If a video gets longer watch time and higher audience retention, RUclips pushes it more. If it was up to me, I wouldn't even edit videos. But unfortunately, 95% of the audience won't watch that.
(on a bigger scale...its why bigger channels, some of their videos get 200,000+ views and some only 25,000.)
All this said, Viewing RUclips on TV is growing and growing...meaning people don't scroll as much. So we're slowly getting to a point where in maybe a 12-24 months, those pauses while tasting will actually work. but we're not there yet!
(and if you're thinking Ralfy does it...yup...100% agree...but he's had his 100,000+ audience for the best part of a decade! - Pre Shorts/Reels, 60 second content, even being a thing 😂 So his viewers are pre conditioned to not want quick videos...and RUclips knows not to show his videos to people who do what fast paced).
XO is pretty much an over rated drink IMO, I like Remy VSOP, but for those of us who are English Sainsbury did a own brand cognac VSOP that was indistiguishable from Remy VSOP, but thats not available anymore, but Tesco do a VSOP which is nearly as good for £24 and thats my go to cognac, I've bought a bottle of Jean Grosperrin cognac for £200 a bottle and that was genuinely sublime, (it was a retirement treat), but for day to day sipping I will have a bottle of Tesco supermarket VSOP, P.S. Aldi Chevalier at £19 is perfectly acceptable as well.
See I’m actually intrigued to dive into Supermarket “Cognac”. Cos at the end of the day, to be called Cognac, it has to adhere to the rules and ages. It can’t just been random cheapo leftover grapes and mass produced on dodgy stills…like supermarket Vodka/Gin…and to a certain extent Rum.
I can’t wait until you do a video on Grappa and see you try some. 😂 I want to try Brand de Jerez.
I don't mind Grappa... but yeah, need to work out logically how it fits in.
Los Brandys de Jerez son buenos branys , como el Cardenal Mendoza , o el Brandy Conde de Osborne , un saludo desde Málaga 😊😊😊
The XO is $20-$22 in LA California....I've been buying that for 15-20yrs...
I really like that stuff. Great value for money.
I tested,
I think,
Remy is far better...
It is, but is it 100$ better?
I own a bottle of Remy Martin XO and Hennessy XO. They are NOT worth the price
There are better Cognac brands on the market that actually make their own Cognac.