Posted on 11/26/2015 8:23:52 AM PST by DogByte6RER
"World's Oldest" Cognac Opened in Poland
What is thought to be the world's oldest Cognac sold at auction was opened in Poland recently to inaugurate a partnership between a Swiss watchmaker and a corporate collector.
The Gautier Cognac was purchased by collector Wealth Solutions in 2014 during an auction of rare wines and liquors organised by Bonhams Fine Art Auctioneers & Valuers in New York.
The bottle itself dates back to 1762 and was recognised as the oldest Cognac sold at public auction to-date when it went under the hammer.
It was opened during a ceremony to mark the partnership between Wealth Solutions and Armin Strom, a Swiss watchmaker. The results of the partnership will be displayed at the next Basel World Fair, the leading timepiece event, held in March 2016.
The ceremony took place on 4 November at Hotel Bristol in Warsaw in the presence of a notary public. It was attended by Sebastian Marten, head of sales and marketing at Armin Strom, Maciej Kossowski, president of the management board of Wealth Solutions, Michal Kowalski, deputy president of Wealth Solutions, Lukasz Baranowski, deputy president of Wealth Solutions, and Edward Bates, expert at Bureau National Interprofessionnel du Cognac (BNIC).
Back in 2014, London hotel The Wellesley purchased what it claims was the world's oldest bottle of Cognac, a 70 cl bottle of Coutanseaux 1767, worth approximately £100,000.
Cheers!
Na zdrowie.
I wonder if it was vinegar and he didn’t want to admit it?
Not a word of how it tasted?
I hope it aged well, and wasn’t “skunky” cognac.
I recently had to work on my water heater and found an unopened can of Keystone Light that I had left behind it when installing it on ‘03. I wonder what it would bring at auction.
Cognac is high quality wine that has been distilled into liquor and put into usually a charred barrel and aged then bottled.
The fact it very old doesn't mean it tastes good.
It might this old because another bottle of out of the same barrel tasted like crap and nobody wanted to open the other bottle. So it sat on the shelf for over 250yrs.
Plot twist: It was latter found out to be a bottle of Fredrick the Great’s urine that was to be sent as a gag gift to Cathrine the Great.
I was going to say this.
The other non=alcoholic parts will turn bitter, precipitate out and the esters will turn rancid but the high alcohol content will prevent it from turning to wine.
My guess is it tastes like a tongue depresser dipped in alcohol and then rubbed with a thin mixture of tar.
It’s amazing, the variety of liquors out there. I was walking through my liquor store and I see so many types of liquors. Many of them expensive. If I had a lot of money, I would take one bottle of each, take them home, and try each one of them. I would probably start a website and give my reviews on them.
We’ve been seeing ads for Flaviar (a seller of liquors) on Facebook. On a lark my sweetie decided to order a few as part of a promotional package. One was supposed to be the highest rated rye whisky, called Whistle Pig. Sweetie doesn’t like straight liquor, but I’m really enjoying that rye!
Probably at least as bad as it tasted in 2003. I hope your financial condition has improved. :)
On the bottom is a small label that says, “by Julio and Ernest Gallo”.
Well if you do, you may want to emulate my favorite reviewer--- Ralfy : Whiskey Stuff
Never fails to crack me up. "Free vodka? Sure, it's GREAT!"
Are you going to mix it with Seven UP?
Sounds like a partnership designed to solve Wealth by taking some.
Here is a paragraph of a "bum wine" I never had before and never will (Cisco) but it was fun to read the review of it:
Most Cisco flavors are named by the fruit flavor that they are trying to emulate, but the one picture is simply called "RED." This chemical disaster will get your head spinning in no time. A test subject reports, "Strawberry Cisco has a bouquet similar to that of Frankenberry cereal fermented in wine cooler with added sprinkle of brandy for presentation." The sticky, sickingly sweet taste with a hint of antifreeze really comes through in the repellant taste of Cisco. Avaliable in various flavors, 375 mL and 750mL sizes. Down a whole 750 mL and you had better be ready to clear your calendar as you suffer through Cisco's legendary 2 day hangover.
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