i'm currently fermenting a few batches of the fabled apfelwein and I'd like to distill one into a brandy. Will the brandy batch also benefit from the 6 month+ aging period or will the distillation erase the subtle improvements of the aging process? I'm fairly new to distilling but aging prior to distillation seems like an alien concept to distillers. That being said, I haven't found a tremendous amount of info on brandy specifically.