The bling of Christmas past: Beaute du Siecle Coganc
With little new wine bling rolling out for this holiday season, I had a brief encounter with the bling of Christmas past. No, it wasn’t the $10k white gold Dom Pérignon jerobaum we brought you (photographically, at least) last year.
Instead, a few days ago I stumbled on an actual bottle of the Hennessy Beauté du Siècle cognac (find this cognac). Introduced last year in its display case designed by ten artists using mirrors and molded aluminum (!), the cognac is supposedly hand delivered in a limousine by one of the directors of LVMH when a bottle is, in fact, purchased. I twisted the Baccarat crystal bottle around in its holder (I didn’t lift it because I thought it might trip a sensor and since I’m not Indiana Jones, I didn’t have a 750g bag of sand to put in its place). There’s no label, save for the government warning! Ah, the surgeon general’s reach escapes no one.
Perhaps there is an aluminum lining for those interested in purchasing: introduced at €150,000 last year, the price has gone down based on exchange rates alone!
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On December 1st, 2008 at 10:06 pm ,Mark Ashley wrote:
Bling in a box!
I wonder what it would fetch at market today, with the markets down again.
Separately: thank you for “aluminum lining.”
On December 2nd, 2008 at 9:51 am ,WineWench wrote:
Ewww. I have nothing more to say other than eww!
On December 2nd, 2008 at 3:07 pm ,Christy Frank wrote:
This just makes me laugh….I can just hear the conversations that went on around this project. Where on earth did you find it?
On December 2nd, 2008 at 3:11 pm ,Dylan wrote:
They could have been a little more over-the-top. For instance, the limo could have been encrusted in diamonds and gold.