Hennessy VSOP Grande Fine Champagne Cognac Baccarat Decanter

Hennessy VSOP Grande Fine Champagne Cognac Baccarat Decanter

A rare old bottling of Hennessy VSOP packaged in a Baccarat crystal decanter. We reckon that this would have been bottled in the 1980s.

Hennessy is a Cognac house founded in 1765 by Richard Hennessy, an Irish officer serving in the army of King Louis XV of France. It has been exporting to the US since 1794, and is noted for producing the first VSOP (Very Superior Old Pale) for the future King George IV. The company also introduced the star rating system in the 1860s, and the first XO Cognac in 1870. It is now part of the LVMH group.

Hennessy is made from grapes harvested from vineyards in four Cognac crus – Grande and Petite Champagne, Borderies and Fin Bois. The company has one of the largest reserves of Cognac in its cellars and ages over 300,000 casks (each made in Hennessy’s own cooperage), of which many are more than 100 years old, and some as much as 200.