French Entrepreneur Plans To Crack Open The $37,000 Cognac

This site is owned by a cognac lover and the contributors to this site enjoy a fine cognac every once in a while. But it’s not everyday that we can think of opening an expensive bottle of Cognac. The landmark restaurant in Paris recently decided to auction off a collection of 18,000 bottles of wine and cognac. Some that are over 200 years old. Tour d’Argent restaurant is considered to have one of the best and biggest cellars in the world. The sheer amount of bottles that were put up for auction alone points to that fact.

The bottle of cognac that we are talking about is Vieux Cognac which dates back to 1788. Cognac connoisseurs from U.S., China, Russia and other countries were present at the auction but a young Frenchman took the prize. The winning bid for this bottle of cognac was $37,000. Yes, $37,000. The young French entrepreneur says he plans to drink the 221 year old bottle of cognac which he bought at the auction.

We would love to embed the video but seems like the embed feature has been disabled by news sites on YouTube. If you would like to watch a little more about the auction and the collection of these rare wines and cognac, please click Paris restaurant auctions wine collection. Also, click An expensive glass of cognac to watch the interview with the winner who plans to drink the 221 year old cognac.

If you would like to see this bottled history please take a look at the pictures below. All images are linked to the source.

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3 Responses to “French Entrepreneur Plans To Crack Open The $37,000 Cognac”

1. Peter Bowyer says:

   December 9, 2009 at 6:36 pm

   Drinking this 200+ year old cognac will be a huge disappointment. Cognac only ages when in the oak cask, not in the bottle, so if the cognac was only, say, 10 years old when it was bottled it is still effectively only 10 years old now. Sorry to be a damp-squibb on this, but there are many fine cognacs around, mostly from smaller producers, which are sold at a tiny fraction of the cost of this bottle which will be eminently better to drink.
2. Ryan says:

   December 13, 2009 at 1:26 am

   On the second photo, what is the large buildup of crust particularly near the top of the bottle? is it something to do with the way it’s stored, surely it isn’t dirt?
3. Robert says:

   December 27, 2009 at 1:12 pm

   @Ryan:

   I was told it are fungi that commonly live in wine cellars. I understood that they have no influence on the cognac’s quality.