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Spirits & Distilling

paradis

From The Oxford Companion to Spirits & Cocktails

(French for “paradise”) is the part of a cognac or Armagnac house’s cellar where the oldest brandies are stored, often in glass demijohns to arrest further maturation. See Armagnac; cognac;, maturaton.

This definition is from The Oxford Companion to Spirits & Cocktails, edited by David Wondrich (Editor-in-Chief) and Noah Rothbaum (Associate Editor).