One step might be to try a different brandy.
Sadly, that might also mean paying quite a bit more.
I used to be a whisky rather than a brandy person, but two things helped me get my head around brandy - both as a result of doing one of those tourist tours of the Remy Martin distillery and getting a couple of free samples at the end. First: expensive brandy. Their XO is magnificent. Second, they served some of it from the freezer. There were people on the tour who normally wouldn't like brandy, but said that the ice-cold version was much more easier on the mouth. That might be your way in.
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Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 16:15,
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I was in Poland years ago.
After spending a day walking round Auschwitz I had a head full of grim.
Determined get the thought of Nazis out of my head I decided to
find the most Jewish drink I could find.
A bottle of passover sliwowica 70% plum brandy did the job nicely.
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Cerebus Sticky! Sticky! Stick! Stick!, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 16:27,
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Mossad here
I was in Poland years ago.
You are Schutzstaffel officer Amon Göth,
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The Scrunt Wants a Dozen Pints, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 16:35,
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It may have been
the cheap armagnac I did in Paris that gutted my lining
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The Scrunt Wants a Dozen Pints, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 16:29,
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