Well, hurry up and let's open it!
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A 328-year-old cognac has been certified as the oldest in existence.
The bottle of 1696 Jules Robin Cognac belongs to Dutch collector Lars Janssen, who recently discovered it among his vast reserve of rare cognacs.
It is 24 years older than the previous known oldest cognac, a bottle of 1720 Caves Du Restaurant owned by Vietnamese collector Nguyen Dinh Tuan Viet.
This record is based upon the date on which the cognac was distilled, not bottled.
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I'm in.
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Pardon my ignorance (I am a life long teetotaler), but…
So I assume this is considered drinkable? Or, more importantly, are they going to drink it??
Also, from the article:
This record is based upon the date on which the cognac was distilled, not bottled.
Although the record-breaking cognac was distilled in 1696 – a time when King Louis XIV ruled over France and King William III sat on the English throne – it wasn’t bottled until around 200 years later, sometime in the late 1880s or early 1890s by Jules Robin and Edmond Jaulin.
So does that mean it sat in some other container for two hundred years??
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Btw @wtg’s link didn’t work for me (not sure why), but this one did:
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Very old fortified wines and other booze is occasionally rebottled from larger to smaller bottles both to market them and to preserve them better if the corks are aging.
The oldest stuff I've had is an 1886 Madeira, which was honeyed and luscious. I may have posted this pic before, so forgive me if I have.
Anthony's friends in Vegas, the ones who lent their home for his wedding, opened this up to celebrate his Ph.D. last year.
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@Piano-Dad said in Well, hurry up and let's open it!:
and other booze
Ah, I see you are familiar with the technical jargon associated with liquor production.
