Claude Chatelier VS - Affordable Heaven

In California, Trader Joes sells not just beer and wine, but liquor as well!  I picked up a bottle of Claude Chatelier VS Cognac there back around Christmas for a whole $19.99, with the contingency plan that "if this doesn't taste good, we'll cook with it, it'll be better than cooking brandy".  I normally drink VSOP Cognac (Hennessy, Remy Martin, Martel, or Courvoisier... which typically is the $22 Hennessy from Costco).  Total Wine's Cognac is usually (in Greenville SC, Glendale AZ, Goodyear AZ, and Phoenix AZ) locked up in a glass case, and you have to get a store attendant to come over and unlock it for you (1st world problems, yeah, I know).  So it was nice to try a new brand that was not kept under lock & key.

Claude Chatelier Did Not disappoint.  It is smooth, delicious, and full of eau de vie, just as every Cognac (by law) must have.  And I am additionally delighted to know that this delicious, healthy, high quality French spirit is also wonderfully inexpensive - cheaper even than Jameson, Bushmills, Maker's Mark, or Woodford Reserve, and better for you too!  Thanks Trader Joes!