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World's
Top 10 Most Expensive
Liquors
10. $5,500 –
Jenssen Arcana
Aged 98 years in
Oak barrels, Jenssen’s Arcana is powerful,
“extraordinarily”
concentrated
and only bottled, sealed and certified upon
request.
9. $6,000 –
Hine Triomphe Talent De Thomas Hine Crystal
Decanter
Each bottle of
Hine’s high-end Talent de Thomas is bottled in a
Baccarat decanter and placed within an actual
cigar humidor
made from Maccasar ebony
and Honduran Mahogany which helps preserve the
spirit’s delicate floral
bouquet.
8. $6,400 –
Frapin Cuvée 1888
A rare blend of
Cognacs from Frapin’s reserves, the Cuvée is
bottled beneath a 24-karat gold stopper in a
twisty crystal decanter
that looks like a
prop from a community Shakespeare staging.
Flowery
flavors combine with sweet
spices, honey and toasted vanilla notes.
7. $7,500 –
Martell Creation Cognac In Handcarved Baccarat
Decanter
Martell’s rare
cognac is a “reinterpretation” of a batch first
casked at the start of the 19th century. The
Grand Extra has a soft flavor
that
starts as dried fruit and marmalade and fades
into notes of walnuts and cedarwood.
6. $7,900 –
Le Voyage de Delamain
A blend of cognacs from
Delamain, Le Voyage was bottled in 500 crystal
decanters, most of
which
were quickly bought
or reserved by eager
collectors. It’s rumored to have a complex taste
that fades from Russian leather to tobacco,
coffee and Eastern spices.
5. $12,900
– Hardy Perfection 140 years
Cognac
Supposedly the
“World’s oldest known unblended cognac,” this
offering from Hardy was limited to 300 Daum
crystal decanters.
It’s an exceedingly
rare cognac that is said to taste of coffee,
chocolate and oak.
4. $55,000
– Remy Martin Cognac Black Pearl Louis
XIII
When you swish
Remy Martin’s deep amber-colored Black Pearl
Louis XIII around in your mouth,
you’re
actually tasting 1,200 40 to 100-year old
cognacs blended together. The swill is
said
to smell of flowers, fruits and
spices,
it’s flavor a mixture of ginger,
cinnamon and Cuban cigars.
3. $200,000
– Hennessy Beaute du Siecle
Cognac
Insert a bronze
key, turn, and Hennessy’s Baccarat
crystal-bottled Beaute du
Siecle rises up on a tray.
Housed in a melted aluminum and mirrored
glass case this mixture is blended from
Hennessy’s reserves of 47 to 100-year-old
cognacs.
2. $2
million – Henri IV, Cognac Grande
Champagne
 
An elixir
mixed since
1776
by the direct descendants of King Henri IV, each
batch of Henri IV Dudognon Heritage is aged in a
barrel for more than 100 years and capped inside
a 24-karat gold-dipped and 6,500
diamond-bejeweled bottle
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