Referring to a bottle of Cognac 1762, it has spent a lot of the press and media, with more than 1000 articles from 204 countries around the world posting information about it. This ” exceedingly rare” Cognac bottle that has been stored since the late 19th century, before the French revolution, Three ancient cognac bottles that Alphonse brought back that year in different sizes, respectively Grand Frère (‘big brother’), Petit Frere (‘little brother’) and Petit Soeur (‘little sister’). The Petit Soeur (‘little sister’) is now housed in the Gautier Museum, southwestern France, proudly displaying its near priceless royal warrant signed by King Louis XV himself in 1755. In 2014, the second smaller bottle, ‘Petit Frere’ of 1762 Gautier Cognac was auctioned by Bonhams in New York. And it was on 04 November 2015 at The Bristol Hotel in Warsaw (Poland) that the bottle opening ceremony took place. It was done to celebrate the collaboration between Wealth Solutions and the Swiss watch maker, Armin Strom. Thought this would be the end of the legendary 1762 bottles, but surprisingly, in 2020, the ‘big brother’ bottle of Grand Frère has reappeared through an auction at Sotheby’s London.
Gautier 1762 Grand Frère is the last remaining version and has created a worldwide fever when proudly becoming the first bottle to own two Guinness World Records titles. The first title is “Oldest cognac bottle sold at auction”, when it has been 258 years since it was purchased in 2020. The second title was “Most Expensive Cognac at Auction”, when it was purchased for £122,696, breaking the record of more than a hundred thousand pounds set by the Cognac Cuvee Leonie 1858 in 2013.
It can be said that the Gautier 1762 version was very proud to bring itself two noble Guinness records and will become a priceless cognac bottle globally both in terms of preciousness and rarity that is sure to be for a long time. This can be replaced by another version.
Cre: https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/most-expensive-cognac
https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/420937-oldest-cognac-sold-at-auction