So it’s literally the bottles.
Not the cognac that was in them.
Not the cognac that was in them.
The article mentioned that four bottles of the cognac were recovered in drinkable condition and were auctioned off for $45K each. I wonder where they sourced the period-correct replacement cognac from, to fill the remaining (refurbished) bottles? It seems like very old examples of rare distilled spirits (like pre-ban absinthe, for example) tend to come for Spain.