Louis XIII’s L’Odyssée d’un Roi Cognac is the product of an inspired collaboration amongst the revered Louis XIII Cognac house and three luxury French maisons—Hermès, Puiforcat, and Saint-Louis. Only three bottles will be released for auction, each one-of-a-kind masterpiece representing over 1000 hours of work by specialized artisans Cognac house Rémy Martin recently launched Louis XIII Rare Cask 42,6, a limited edition of its famous decanter. This Rare Cask is the second of the name, the first having been released in 2010. Each of these editions come from a single barrel, called “tierçon” in Cognac. This time the tierçon was a LOUIS XIII’s RARE CASK 42.1 – an extraordinary cognac, the third in the Rare Cask limited-edition series – is served by the glass at the prestigious Baccarat Hotel in New York City. The journey of RARE CASK 42.1 began in the Grande Champagne Cru of Cognac, France, where fifth-generation Cellar Master, Baptiste Loiseau, stumbled upon a

The LOUIS XIII Rare Cask 42.1 set is expected to fetch a retail price of $50k through the Louis concierge, but given the absurdly limited availability, we expect that price to be about as common as getting Pappy for retail.

At a wondrous reveal in Venice earlier this year, Louis XIII unveiled Rare Cask 42.1, an even more rarefied cognac presented in a Baccarat decanter (the jeroboam weighs in at 18 pounds). “We have eau-de-vie older than Canada,” notes Eric Vallat, CEO of Rémy Cointreau (parent company of Louis XIII), a fact that highlights the preciousness . 461 446 441 161 113 246 356 340

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