Cognac

A beautiful and very old bottle of Grande Champagne des Heritiers cognac, bottled by Berry Brothers. This was distilled back in 1848, before the phylloxera epidemic, and is very much a slice of spirits history.

One of the oldest vintage cognacs available anywhere, this was distilled a full five decades before the phylloxera outbreak and bottled around the turn of the 20th century.

An 1893 vintage cognac from Denis Mounié, a producer founded when Justin Denis and Henri Mounié joined forces and merged their vineyards in 1838. The spirit is packaged in a solid crystal decanter made by Baccarat.

A prestige cuvée from Criozet, blended from the House's private reserves.
IWSC 2012 - Silver Outstanding Medal - Cognac

A wonderful large old 2.25 litre bottle of 1906 vintage Fine Champagne cognac from Croizet in amazing condition for its age. Fine Champagne means that the eaux-de-vie used came only from Grande Champagne & Petite Champagne, the two best regions.

A 1950s bottling of 1894 vintage cognac from Croizet, still well known as a producer of some of the world's finest cognacs. To top that this is packaged in a crystal decanter from Baccarat.

A very rare bottle of Rémy Martin's prestige Louis XIII cognac, released in the 1950s and marked with the extra signifier of being an "Age Inconnu" bottling.

A very rare old Baccarat crystal decanter of Martell Creation cognac, featuring a brilliantly put-together blend of some of the house's oldest and finest eaux-de-vie. NO BOX / NO CRYSTAL STOPPER

An old but well preserved bottle of Biquit Dubouche's 1878 cognac.

Ancient phylloxera-era cognac from Bisquit (now Bisquit-Renault) one of the old pre-eminent houses of the day.

An 1858 vintage bottling from Bisquit Dubouche, a pre-phylloxera bottling of cognac produced by one of the most reknowned houses of the day.

L'Esprit de Cognac is Courvoisier's ne plus ultra expression of one of the world's noblest spirits, and has been crafted from some of the finest Cognac vintages of the last 200 years - the youngest eau-de-vie used in the assemblage is from 1930, while the oldest dates from the Napoleonic era.

A very special A.E. Dor Tres Vieille Reserve bottled in a stunning Daum crystal decanter.

A very old bottle of pre-phylloxera cognac - a 1865 vintage bottling of Grande Fine Champagne Cognac from Eschenauer.

Frapin Cuvée 1888 honours company founder Piere Frapin, who in 1888 selected the cuvee that won a Gold Medal at the World Fair in Paris. Some of the cognacs used in the assemblage pre-date 1888, and a high proportion of the little-seen Folle Blanche grape is used. Presented in a crystal decanter with a spiral of gold thread and a 24-carat gold stopper, plus a gilded fob watch containing a block of Pierre Frapin perfume.

A very limited and sought after cognac from the house of Delamain. A blend of their finest old Grande Champagne cognacs presented in a Baccarat decanter itself sat inside a fan-shaped gift box styled after an old school camera's bellows.

A magnum of Rémy Martin's famed super-premium cognac, the Louis XIII, presented in a large numbered Baccarat crystal decanter. This set includes the presentation box and numbered stopper, but not the numbered booklet.