Croizet Cuvee Leonie 1858 Cognac
The bottle 1858 Croizet Cuvée, retailed at a whopping huge price tag of $156,700, took the record with the Guinness Book of World Records at the world’s most expensive Cognac.
This is a very special bottle from one of the finest Cognac-producing houses. Croizet Croizet Cuvée Léonie is made up with the oldest, most precious eaux-de-vie in the company’s paradis – this producer’s ultimate cuvée is one of the world’s most exclusive Cognacs. The bottles themselves are the original blown glass, heavy, deep yellowish-brown. The Cognac was bottled from the 1858 harvest.
Of this, Lee Tachman – owner of Financial District Wine and Liquor – said, “What impresses me about this Cognac is that Croizet resisted the temptation to transfer this magnificent Cognac into a fancy modern bottle. It’s still in its original hand-blown glass bottle from 1858, with dust and dirt on it from the Paradis cave where it has been sitting for over 150 years.”
According to Gennady Agrest, President of Croizet Cognac Americas, the company chose Financial District Wine and Liquor as one of a handful of US outlets because owner Lee Tachman “understands and appreciates the history of the brand.” Agrest went on to explain that “Lee does a lot of business with high end liquor, and I have a lot of trust in him. To sell the world’s most expensive Cognac, we have to identify with the right sellers. Financial District Wines has a very impressive collection of other liquors and wines, and his clients are exactly the kind of people we want to experience our full line of Cognac Croizet, and give the opportunity to buy the 1858 Cuvée Léonie.”
Founded in 1805 by Leon Croizet, Cognac Croizet is one of the oldest cognac houses in the world. The producer bottles only single vintages, a rarity in the industry, skipping the bad years rather than blending grapes across vintages as is common practice. Today the brand is one of only three Cognacs that has never lost the right to commercialize single vintage Cognacs. As Agrest explained, “In 1963 there was a lot of fraud in the Cognac business, so the governing body stripped this distinction from all but three Cognacs. Croizet is one.”