Whenever I’ve ordered a brandy from a bar, I’ve always been disappointed, after a long wait while the barperson looks for the long-lost bottle and dusts it off, to have it served in a tumbler or even a half-pint glass.
Last weekend, I was in a posh hotel and asked for an armagnac. Not only did it come back in a brandy balloon, but it had been warmed too. I want to go there again.