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[Yeah Bee]

I now whiskey means something like water of Life in Gaelic and Vodka means small water in russian but what does

Cognac and Armangac mean

[Hippy]

Cognac is a small area of France extending along the banks of the River Charente to the Atlantic coast. It covers a large part of the department of Charente, all of the Charente-Maritime and parts of the Dordogne and Deux-S�vres. This part of the country used to be called Aunis, Saintonge and Angoumois. In the centre lie the towns of Jarnac, Segonzac and Cognac the latter of which gave its name to the spirit. Cognac lies 465 kilometres south-west of Paris and 120 kilometres north of Bordeaux.

 

The heart of Cognac production is the double distillation of wine and long storage in oak casks. Single distillation was known in this region from the 12th century, but it was not until the 16th century when the Knight Jacques de la Croix-Maron had a nightmare in which the Devil, wanting to possess his soul, tried to boil it but did not succeed. When Satan threatened to boil it a second time the knight awoke suddenly and thought of distilling his wine twice to improve the product.

 

The name Armagnac derives from Herreman, a knight who was granted the fiefdom of Gascogny by Clovis, France's 5th century king. "Herreman" is believed to have been Latinised and then distorted into "Armagnac" by local language.

 

Armagnac has been known in south west France since the 14th century and is specially distilled wine from a small area at the heart of Gascogny. It is made by distilling white wine then maturing it for a long time in oak casks.

 

Although Cognac and Armagnac are sometimes referred to as "les eau de vie" or waters of life, this name is borrowed for the Gaelic.

[Octavius]

As mentioned above they are named from the regions they were developed in.  Similarly Champage was originally the area where it was developed, and the word champagne derives from the latin for field (campania).

 

Scots and Irish were much more creative!