Most Expensive Cognac In The World Up For Sale

Most Expensive Cognac In The World Under Auction -- The Telegraph

A Dutch collector is selling some 5,000 unopened bottles of spirits worth more than £5 million, a drinks cabinet that includes the most expensive of Cognac in the world.

Among the bottles collected by Bay Van der Bunt is a 1795 Cognac made in Brugerolle that accompanied Napoleon Bonaparte on his conquests of Europe.

The hand-blown six-litre Jeroboam bottle is worth £114,500 and, said Mr van der Bunt, is "the last of its kind in the world".

"It travelled with Napoleon's army. You can just see it there lying with the others in the hay cart. After the battle – and probably before – the officers would drink from it," he told the Observer.

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My Comment: I agree .... something like that should be left for the ages. But you just know that one day such a bottle will .... eventually .... be opened.