The origins of Armagnac brandy go back to the Middle Ages. In the fifteenth century, brandy was only a pharmacopoeian product, the "aqua ardente" which revived the dying and was used as an antidote during epidemics.
It was after the Reformation in France in the sixteenth century that brandy rose to fame and achieved the status of a beverage.
Distillation reached its peak in the nineteenth century with a production estimated at 100,000 hectolitres.