St-Remy XO Authentic French Brandy is absolutely lovely especially with ice. The column distilled portion of the dram keeps the body lighter, but brings nice dry heat and fine wood spice which the lively, and the pot distilled portion brings additional body an herbal appeal to the dram. The St-Rémy blending geniuses have created a wonderful melding of the two styles of distillate. (I hope I get to try more of the St. Remy range as this XO is outstanding!)