Product description
Rémy Martin Louis XIII made his debut in 1874.
It is a couplet of about 1,200 eaux-de-vie sourced 100% from the Grande Champagne growing district, the crème de la crème of the Cognac region, aged for 40 to 100 years. Its name pays tribute to Louis XIII, the French king reigning at the time the Rémy Martin family settled in the region. Louis XIII was also the first monarch to grant cognacs a separate category among eaux-de-vie, which is still honored today. Since 1874, each Rémy Martin cellar master has selected the oldest and best barrels for future editions of this unique cognac. Since the master in question will not be given a taste of the final product, he must pass on the applicable standards to a potential successor.
The design of the Louis XIII cognac decanter was born in 1850, when Paul-Emile Rémy Martin acquired a metal bottle recovered from the site of the Battle of Jarnac (1569) and secured the rights to reproduce it. Today, crystal decanters are handcrafted by the masters of Baccarat, a leading crystal manufacturer.
In November 2015, a 3-liter bottle of Rémy Martin Louis XIII found a buyer at auction for 95,000. uSD, which is a record for a similar edition.