Originally Posted by
Citoyen du Monde
Le trou dormand name (please note there is no "e" at the end as trou which correctly translates to hole, is male in gender) is actually given solely to Calvados. Calvados is in Normandy, Cognac is not, so it is incorrect to call any Cognac a trou normand. To call Cognac a trou normand is akin to calling Budweiser the Rocky Mountain beer.
Thank you! It is important to get the grammatical niceties right. Is it not odd, now that you mention it, that a word meaning hole should be male in gender? Well, stranger things have happened. Come to think of it, it is odd that something concocted in St. Louis can be called Budweiser, while the beer actually brewed in Budwar (the German name for which is Budweis) cannot. But we digress.