What is cognac made of?
Cognac takes wine grapes, oak wine barrel and water directly. Trace them back and you pass 14 made things on the way to 13 raw materials.
How cognac is made See it on the map
What goes straight in
From the ground: 13 raw materials
- Wine grapes goes straight in
- Water goes straight in
- Timber through oak wine barrel
- Iron ore through oak wine barrel, steel, manganese
- Limestone through oak wine barrel, steel, quicklime
- Air through oak wine barrel, steel, argon
- Dolomite through oak wine barrel, steel, magnesium
- Manganese ore through oak wine barrel, steel, manganese
- Natural gas through oak wine barrel, steel, manganese
- Coal through oak wine barrel, steel, manganese, coke
- Quartz through oak wine barrel, steel, magnesium, metallurgical silicon
- Crude oil through oak wine barrel, steel, steel scrap, propane
- Sulfur through oak wine barrel, steel, manganese, sulfuric acid
Made along the way: 13 things
Metals 6
Chemicals and fuels 6
Electronics 1
What it is packed in
On the line, but left out of everything above, because it holds the finished thing rather than goes into it.