Three Barrels brandy is redesigning its flagship product, Three Barrels XO. The spirit, which is aged for 15 years, will carry a more prominent reference to this on its label to emphasise its premium ...

Brandy is often aged in wood barrels like whiskey, so it presents flavors of its base fruit with a warm, rounded finish. Meanwhile, grappa is an often misunderstood type of brandy.

HURT: We started drinking our way through all those brandy barrels. There were 30,000 barrels that came gushing into our state at one time. That's enough to fill 2 1/2 Olympic-sized pools.

By the end of this year, Tamworth will have put out 15 new products, which is a lot for a small distillery that only makes about 26 barrels of bourbon per year (compare that with the more than ...