[svandamme]

not Cognac, but well worth a try if you haven't : Calvados

made from apple cider in the Normandie great stuff

i know it because my grandmother was born in Touchet, and our family kept ties with the farm there...
they drink it on the side of a desert coffee, or put it on a sugar, to suck on , and call it "pour le mal au coeur" , translated "for the heart ache" the best stuff came out of the old barrels in a little worn shed...