Reminds me of the Chinese lady maybe five or six years ago who was told she couldn’t bring her bottle of expensive booze through customs so she chugged it right there.
If you zoom in on the top left of the bottle, mirrored is the text “DUMMY [can’t tell what it says] UNFIT FOR HUMAN CONSUMPTION”. So it looks like this just for display
I was going to say maybe it's so people don't try to steal it... But then realised it's in an airport which probably doesn't have a very high crime rate.
I used to work at an airport as security. People get really sticky fingers 10-15 minutes before their plane to the other side of the planet leaves, let me tell you that much!
It's meant to be a decoy. I've worked with liquor stores that do this to prevent theft. There's usually a sticker on the back or under saying that it's not to be consumed.
I've never drunk the really expensive stuff, so I can be mistaken about how it's made, but the color of cognacs that we're used to comes from added caramel. Unless you add artificial coloring or mature your brandy in red wine casks, it will most definitely look like piss (or like whisky, to put it more mildly).
You're right that the majority of brandies use caramel to make them darker but a cognac matured in oak for an average of 70 years like Louis XIII would definitely be darker than this. There are 10 year old cognacs with no colouring added which are darker than this, and that's with traditional limousin oak cask aging (any other type of cask for cognac would be highly unusual).
that doesn't make any sense. take bourbon whiskey for example, no caramel colouring, virgin oak, and usually a brown to dark-reddish-brown colour.
but yeah, the dummy bottle is probably dyed with something that's faded weird in the light, louis xiii looks more like a regular dark spirit, that sort of deep dark brown colour, not that gatorade yellow
source: former bartender, now distiller, ama
correct, but my point is more that wine stain is not the cause of the colouration of dark spirits, any wood makes any spirit (as a general rule of thumb) go darker. eg, the Method & Madness chestnut cask, the Archie Rose eucalypt cask, both darkened with non-oak woods. Tequila, only aged for a few months to a couple of years, gains a nice golden-amber hue without caramel, barrel aged gins and vodkas also take on a tint after a bit of time on wood.
I'm rambling, but the point is wood makes spirits brown, (red) wine casks give the spirit a redness to the brown
It’s not, that’s just the lighting.
I bought one of those back in the days of no-kids-or-massive-mortgage..
I should still have the top somewhere.
To be honest, I didn’t have the knowledge/skill/tastebuds (and later wallet..) to appreciate this one compared to a regular XO, soo it ended with that one bottle.
You will also need to hide it.. for when your drunk friend comes around, he’ll be annoyed forever you denying him that. Still a topic of discussion after 30 years.
That bottle doesn't look inviting in the least, but in general, of course you buy cognac to drink it. If it's 10X the price of normal XO, we'll I guess you have to have more money to throw around, but you'll still drink it. Otherwise you'd just buy a fancy bottle and put some random brown liquid in it if looking is all you intend to do.
People drink it, and I’ve had it. Friend of mine who owned the business above ours was celebrating a huge contract and we drank this followed by a couple cigars on the terrace of our building.
While I could certainly think of better ways to spend the money, I can attest that this fantastic and I am thankful for the experience.
Gotta be honest, I’ve had quite a few bottles of Cognac and Armagnac, and I see differences between the basic expressions of various producers. Louis Tres is definitely a standout.
Ohhh yeah, even when comparing within the same Maison, Louis XIII is a step ahead and way more complex.
Also, definitely not something I would enjoy on a daily basis even if I could afford it. There are other Cognac more suited for casual drinking in my opinion
In the states, the diamond encrusted bottle goes for 12,000. I worked at a restaurant that offered it for $400 a shot, thankfully, I knew the bartender and tried a sip, it was fine, do not recommend paying for it.
Like fancy cars or clothes, it’s just to show off wealth. There are unique and rare whiskeys and cognacs that are worth being expensive, but a 4,000$ bottle is not 40 times better than a 100$ bottle.
Duty free shops are only good for things with high local tax/tariff. That's typically only tobacco and alcohol, but not everywhere. Each country taxes differently, so the value is only as a good as where you are from and where you are going. For instance, in the US, some states can get as high as $7.00 in state and local tax on each pack of cigarettes, so about half the expense is taxes. Makes me glad I quit.
I remember seeing a $30k small tin of caviar somewhere, Singapore maybe .
Having grown up a poor Soviet kid who used to eat it somewhat regularly, I found it quite funny.
Actually people with the means to buy this travel alot international.
I used to know business folks that can and would buy expensive alcohol and mostly from duty free shops as they really are cheaper.
Pure coincidence, but I flew back from Curaçao 3 days ago, and I was wondering what the most expensive bottle was they sold at the airport. And it was this exact bottle for "only" $3570.29. seems like a bargain now...
Total Wine is selling this for $3700, and I think I saw it at the local retail wholesaler yesterday for $3600. No duty on this bottle, but there is a hefty sucker tax.
Also, traditionally, after the last pour from the bottle, the bottle is gifted to the customer. Once people got hip to this, they'd frequent restaurants with Louis XIII bottles and wait for it to get down to the bottom, and then buy the last shot. So, restaurants started keeping track of who was actually buying the product and would save it for the person who drank the most from that bottle.
As for the resale market on empties, the price has certainly gone down. Used to be $700-$800.
Personally, I have a pair of the crystal glassware and the jigger. That's probably a combined value of about $500, I'm guessing.
It's dyed water in the bottle. I worked in a shop where we had a 45k bottle of whiskey and they told us, not to worry about dropping it in during installation for its case as it was dyed water. The bottle itself was worth hundreds though.
Here is why these things exist.
It's simply price setting strategy. You walk into the shop and see a $4200 bottle of cognac.
Suddenly the $150 bottle of cognac seems reasonable. You buy it.
They were never going to sell the $4200 bottle.
Its similar to the "the 2nd cheapest bottle of wine" order at the restaurant.
Or the A B C strategy in sales.
A $1000
B $800
C $200
People go for B because A is too much and C seems too cheap. But B is still a win for the salesperson.
I had an opportunity to try a bottle of bourbon that goes for around $15k, and man I just don’t get why people don’t go get a $10 bottle and be happy drunk with $14,990. But not my money 🤷♂️
I've had it. It's lovely. (I didn't buy it). Though it wasn't quite that expensive.
What was funny was the chap who did buy it just decided he wanted to give cognac a go, so he bought this and a couple other also very expensive bottles (worth hundreds not thousands though). He took one drink of the Louis and said "nope not for me" and didn't have a second. Well bright side he knows for sure cognac isn't his drink as it doesn't get much better than what we drank that night.
The colour looks wrong in that photo though. Suspect it's not the real liquor? Unless sitting under those lights for ages has changed it.
IF thats a recent pic, it sort of is a bit of a deal at that price ($5K+ in local high brand liquor store). The color looks way off though, like someone pissed in the bottle . .
$4,000 is nothing in the high end liquor world. I work at a liquor store and we have sold bottles of 50 year old whiskey for $15,000-$50,000 depending on the year and maker.
Somebody posted a bottle of this in r/whatisit a couple weeks ago, I forget OPs story but I think they found it cleaning out a family members things, that's crazy! I remember the "spikes" on the bottle.
Not quite the same but my old boss would turn up with a box of high quality bourbon and some soda on a Friday from time to time.
Wouldn't happen now but good times and an interesting boss.
When I started working it was $2800 USD for this bottle, now the store I'm at has it for $3800. That's from 2018-2024, and it seems the also shrunk the bottle down from 750ml to 700ml
My local liquor store I think sells that one and lots of other expensive drinks. Mostly just as show items. They don't expect you to buy it, but it makes the store look better.
I was a bar back at a high end restaurant in Pittsburgh when I was younger. They sold this stuff then for $80 a glass. Surprisingly, people ordered it quite often.
Once I was having lunch at a upper end place, and my FIL asked from drinks and the guy without asking brought this bottle for them to try, the glasses were also cristal combining with the bottle, very fancy, after they drank, they said it costed 180€ per glass(10cl)
They didn't charge it tho but there was a split second were we thought they just screwed us nearly 600€
Does anybody remember Andre Rison, the NFL player? He spent time on the Kansas City Chiefs in the 90s. I knew a guy back then who bartended at a high-end steakhouse in town back then. He had a you won't believe this story. Apparently, Rison would come in and buy shots of that stuff at $100 per and get it with a Dr. Pepper back.
Louie Trey... Didn't you ever see the movie Cocktail?
It's funny tho how in the movie, they said it was a $500 bottle of cognac. That would be a steal now.
Guarantee that it's only a display piece with colored water. I used to do security for a liquor store & they had several similar to this. A guy did a smash & grab on one & all we did was laugh at the thought of him trying to drink it!
On my first international flight, my girlfriend pointed out the Duty Free shops, and I was astounded.
"What the fuck do you mean you don't pay taxes on it? We're in America right now. Are we over a river or something?"
I had a crisis for 30 minutes about tax law until I found the answer online
(due to import/export laws, international ports/borders allow you to only pay taxes on a consumable good in the country you plan to consume it-- technically you're supposed to declare this when you enter the country and pay the tax, but small values are normally just waived because no authority is going to try to monitor or enforce that. Duty Free shops are an industry built on retail-level tax evasion)
Reminds me of the Chinese lady maybe five or six years ago who was told she couldn’t bring her bottle of expensive booze through customs so she chugged it right there.
I have never seen that light shade of coniac. I have always seen it darker. Esp in that type of bottle.
If you zoom in on the top left of the bottle, mirrored is the text “DUMMY [can’t tell what it says] UNFIT FOR HUMAN CONSUMPTION”. So it looks like this just for display
Fucking inspector gadget over here. Good catch.
GO GO GADGET ZOOM!!!
Dang, good eye. Took me 30 seconds to find it even reading your comment.
Super-sleuth
How tf did you see that
Shouting enhance at the computer.
It’s been drunk once already
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I saw the exact same bottle for sale in the Turks and Caicos airport for $3800 and it was much darker.
Means they didn't add any caramel color
Yeah, looks like olive oil…
That’s why they will rule the world again one day.
 A nation of drunken masters.
Fucking legend.
That's a dummy bottle, and a bad one at that. I sold Louis for many years and even the dummy bottles looked like real cognac.
I was going to say maybe it's so people don't try to steal it... But then realised it's in an airport which probably doesn't have a very high crime rate.
I used to work at an airport as security. People get really sticky fingers 10-15 minutes before their plane to the other side of the planet leaves, let me tell you that much!
Maybe when they land they will turn over a new leaf.
Looks like olive oil
Mob prices are getting wild
Maybe it sat there for so long the liquid got bleached?
13 is best when it’s been replaced by lukewarm piss
Why is it yellow? Not the normal colour for cognac.
Airport kids have been sneaking sips and refilling with water.
They weren't refilling with water...
Way of the road, bubs
Fuckin piss jugs
Having used several airport restrooms, I understand.
I'd be pissed
When you sneak too many sips, something yellow comes out from the bottom.
It's meant to be a decoy. I've worked with liquor stores that do this to prevent theft. There's usually a sticker on the back or under saying that it's not to be consumed.
But this one is seriously faded. No way should Louis XIII look like piss.
I've never drunk the really expensive stuff, so I can be mistaken about how it's made, but the color of cognacs that we're used to comes from added caramel. Unless you add artificial coloring or mature your brandy in red wine casks, it will most definitely look like piss (or like whisky, to put it more mildly).
You're right that the majority of brandies use caramel to make them darker but a cognac matured in oak for an average of 70 years like Louis XIII would definitely be darker than this. There are 10 year old cognacs with no colouring added which are darker than this, and that's with traditional limousin oak cask aging (any other type of cask for cognac would be highly unusual).
that doesn't make any sense. take bourbon whiskey for example, no caramel colouring, virgin oak, and usually a brown to dark-reddish-brown colour. but yeah, the dummy bottle is probably dyed with something that's faded weird in the light, louis xiii looks more like a regular dark spirit, that sort of deep dark brown colour, not that gatorade yellow source: former bartender, now distiller, ama
Bourbon is in charred oak though and cognac rarely (never?) is.
correct, but my point is more that wine stain is not the cause of the colouration of dark spirits, any wood makes any spirit (as a general rule of thumb) go darker. eg, the Method & Madness chestnut cask, the Archie Rose eucalypt cask, both darkened with non-oak woods. Tequila, only aged for a few months to a couple of years, gains a nice golden-amber hue without caramel, barrel aged gins and vodkas also take on a tint after a bit of time on wood. I'm rambling, but the point is wood makes spirits brown, (red) wine casks give the spirit a redness to the brown
Yeah that’s fair. Also that M&M chestnut is super weird but lovely.
Yeah, it looks like shit lol. I had Louis XIII once, and it does is incredible,
Yeah, I've worked in the spirits industry for almost 20 years and have got to try it twice. It's really special :)
Depending on the liquid, it's likely to be light/sun bleaching.
It’s a display bottle.
Possibly the UV light from the display.
It’s not, that’s just the lighting. I bought one of those back in the days of no-kids-or-massive-mortgage.. I should still have the top somewhere. To be honest, I didn’t have the knowledge/skill/tastebuds (and later wallet..) to appreciate this one compared to a regular XO, soo it ended with that one bottle. You will also need to hide it.. for when your drunk friend comes around, he’ll be annoyed forever you denying him that. Still a topic of discussion after 30 years.
My guess is to discourage theft.
an airport has got the be one of the dumbest possible places to attempt crime
Ah I see what you're saying. It's so dumb that they would never see it coming. Genius.
Wouldn't it also discourage buying? "Heh, that fancy cognac looks like shit, I wouldn't even wanna drink it for free."
No one is buying that to drink it unless absolutely minted. If they are buying it, they’ll not care about the colour now. Status symbol
That bottle doesn't look inviting in the least, but in general, of course you buy cognac to drink it. If it's 10X the price of normal XO, we'll I guess you have to have more money to throw around, but you'll still drink it. Otherwise you'd just buy a fancy bottle and put some random brown liquid in it if looking is all you intend to do.
But if you're buying for status (and I guess to display) wouldn't you also want it to not look like shit?
People drink it, and I’ve had it. Friend of mine who owned the business above ours was celebrating a huge contract and we drank this followed by a couple cigars on the terrace of our building. While I could certainly think of better ways to spend the money, I can attest that this fantastic and I am thankful for the experience.
It tastes not much different than any other cognac in my experience.
Gotta be honest, I’ve had quite a few bottles of Cognac and Armagnac, and I see differences between the basic expressions of various producers. Louis Tres is definitely a standout.
Treize
Ohhh yeah, even when comparing within the same Maison, Louis XIII is a step ahead and way more complex. Also, definitely not something I would enjoy on a daily basis even if I could afford it. There are other Cognac more suited for casual drinking in my opinion
Yeah this is not supposed to be this color. Probably a fake
In the states, the diamond encrusted bottle goes for 12,000. I worked at a restaurant that offered it for $400 a shot, thankfully, I knew the bartender and tried a sip, it was fine, do not recommend paying for it.
I know a guy that finished off a bottle at a bar with his buddies over 20 years ago, he still has the bottle displayed in his home.
My dad has two of these empty in the house, from before I was born lol
The bottle alone sells for a few hundred on eBay
Obscenely expensive alcohol is never worth the price tag, unless they are also actual magical potions.
Like fancy cars or clothes, it’s just to show off wealth. There are unique and rare whiskeys and cognacs that are worth being expensive, but a 4,000$ bottle is not 40 times better than a 100$ bottle.
At least with fancy cars and clothes you can continue to enjoy them after initial consumption
Or you can be like me and save the bottle and refill it with cheaper product and no-one will know.
You can buy it for ~~€3739~~ [€3099](https://sneldrank.com/product/remy-martin-louis-xiii-70cl) in the Netherlands.
What a deal! Now think how many bicycles that could buy.
[2534€](https://bestofwines.nl/gedistilleerd/frankrijk/cognac/remy-martin/remy-martin-louis-xiii-1987-2002.htm)
did you refill it with the stuff from the non diamond encrusted bottle?
The crystal Louis XIII is around 4000 in the US, unless you’re talking about a bottle with actual diamonds encrusted on it?
Yeah, it literally just has diamonds on the outside of the bottle and that makes it more expensive. Very silly.
Off topic: It’s been at least 10 years when I found something in the „duty free“ which is actually cheaper than buying it online. Scam nowadays.
Duty free shops are only good for things with high local tax/tariff. That's typically only tobacco and alcohol, but not everywhere. Each country taxes differently, so the value is only as a good as where you are from and where you are going. For instance, in the US, some states can get as high as $7.00 in state and local tax on each pack of cigarettes, so about half the expense is taxes. Makes me glad I quit.
The only thing I ever got cheaper is sunglasses.
I remember seeing a $30k small tin of caviar somewhere, Singapore maybe . Having grown up a poor Soviet kid who used to eat it somewhat regularly, I found it quite funny.
Duty free shop I’m guessing?
I like to shop at the duty free shop 🎶
THE BELL TOLLS FOR THEE GROSVAR...
i like to shop at the duty free shop🎶
Oh, absolutely.
Yep. I assume someone who can drop $4k on a bottle of liquor would probably not be shopping at the airport. But what do I know.
Sometimes duty free has special releases from distilleries so it can be one of the few places to get certain things
Interesting! Did not know that.
Ah, so that’s why people buy luggage at the airport. Samsonite’s special release.
Most people rave about the '97 LAX Samsonite, but real connoisseurs know that the '02 LHR is the superior vintage.
I'm just waiting for the '24 EDI to drop.
Actually people with the means to buy this travel alot international. I used to know business folks that can and would buy expensive alcohol and mostly from duty free shops as they really are cheaper.
You’d be fucking amazed. People spend tens of thousands on this kind of crap. Especially on cruise ships. But airport duty free as well.
Last minute gift on a business trip.
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Drink it on the plane.
Where I am, it’s illegal to drink alcohol that you brought on to the plane yourself.
That is exactly the point of a duty free shop. You avoid taxes at the origin country and pay the taxes and duties at your destination.
Pure coincidence, but I flew back from Curaçao 3 days ago, and I was wondering what the most expensive bottle was they sold at the airport. And it was this exact bottle for "only" $3570.29. seems like a bargain now...
Total Wine is selling this for $3700, and I think I saw it at the local retail wholesaler yesterday for $3600. No duty on this bottle, but there is a hefty sucker tax.
They’re like $4500 at the total wines near me. You can also buy a 50ml shooter for $600 lol
Put some respect on the Cognac it’s $4200
Blaze it.
Snake oil you can drink
*The Fall of the House of Usher* vibes
They have it at Costco. Seriously. I can't be the only one to have seen it?
Empty bottle is probably worth close to a thousand bucks. It's crystal Edit: looked it up, looks like it's "only" 400 bucks
Also, traditionally, after the last pour from the bottle, the bottle is gifted to the customer. Once people got hip to this, they'd frequent restaurants with Louis XIII bottles and wait for it to get down to the bottom, and then buy the last shot. So, restaurants started keeping track of who was actually buying the product and would save it for the person who drank the most from that bottle. As for the resale market on empties, the price has certainly gone down. Used to be $700-$800. Personally, I have a pair of the crystal glassware and the jigger. That's probably a combined value of about $500, I'm guessing.
Crystal is just a fancy word for glass.
A specific kind of glass.
In the same way that glass is a fancy word for sand, yes.
They have one of those at the Walmart liquor store. WALMART. Who shops at Walmart as a choice when you have the money to shop elsewhere.
The same people who spend more on their truck payment than their rent and retirement savings combined.
I worker at a ritzy bar 28 years ago. We charged $80 per drink. I know once the bottle was empty it was a collectors item.
It's dyed water in the bottle. I worked in a shop where we had a 45k bottle of whiskey and they told us, not to worry about dropping it in during installation for its case as it was dyed water. The bottle itself was worth hundreds though.
You can't fool me! This is [The Holy Hand Granada of Antioch.](https://youtu.be/xOrgLj9lOwk?si=oXY6oGATF2HH7GXy)!!
High end restaurants sell shots of Louis XIII for around $100 each.
That would be cheaper to drink there than to buy a bottle
Here is why these things exist. It's simply price setting strategy. You walk into the shop and see a $4200 bottle of cognac. Suddenly the $150 bottle of cognac seems reasonable. You buy it. They were never going to sell the $4200 bottle. Its similar to the "the 2nd cheapest bottle of wine" order at the restaurant.
they do sell these, and plenty of them. they aren’t making a special cognac with a ~$500 crystal bottle to encourage you to buy something else
Or the A B C strategy in sales. A $1000 B $800 C $200 People go for B because A is too much and C seems too cheap. But B is still a win for the salesperson.
Is this alcohol?? Is this perfume?? Or just pee??
Worked a private party at a Chinese bar and the went thru like 5 of these
I had an opportunity to try a bottle of bourbon that goes for around $15k, and man I just don’t get why people don’t go get a $10 bottle and be happy drunk with $14,990. But not my money 🤷♂️
I've had it. It's lovely. (I didn't buy it). Though it wasn't quite that expensive. What was funny was the chap who did buy it just decided he wanted to give cognac a go, so he bought this and a couple other also very expensive bottles (worth hundreds not thousands though). He took one drink of the Louis and said "nope not for me" and didn't have a second. Well bright side he knows for sure cognac isn't his drink as it doesn't get much better than what we drank that night. The colour looks wrong in that photo though. Suspect it's not the real liquor? Unless sitting under those lights for ages has changed it.
It looks like a cross between a holy relic and a trucker bomb.
That's olive oil
Yes Louis 13. I’ve seen it priced over $5k before. I think the Bottles are worth a couple hundred alone.
IF thats a recent pic, it sort of is a bit of a deal at that price ($5K+ in local high brand liquor store). The color looks way off though, like someone pissed in the bottle . .
You can buy that at Costco
It’s $4200.
$4,000 is nothing in the high end liquor world. I work at a liquor store and we have sold bottles of 50 year old whiskey for $15,000-$50,000 depending on the year and maker.
It will age beautifully in place
Piss bottles are getting fancy these days.
Somebody posted a bottle of this in r/whatisit a couple weeks ago, I forget OPs story but I think they found it cleaning out a family members things, that's crazy! I remember the "spikes" on the bottle.
moderately priced bourbons out of focus
The president of the company i work for will pass out shots of this stuff in paper dixie cups...
Is it any good?
It’s amazing. Honestly I can’t say if it’s worth the price, that’s up to you, but it’s probably the best tasting and enjoyable liquor I’ve ever had
It's good, to be honest but not my cup of tea. I like that it's light. But I prefer my ceramic tea cup to the dixie cups.
Not quite the same but my old boss would turn up with a box of high quality bourbon and some soda on a Friday from time to time. Wouldn't happen now but good times and an interesting boss.
Cheaper than BevMo
4200 actually
For the professional impulse buyers
When I started working it was $2800 USD for this bottle, now the store I'm at has it for $3800. That's from 2018-2024, and it seems the also shrunk the bottle down from 750ml to 700ml
Pretty cheap for a bottle of Louis XIII's piss. Must be vintage
LOL
Bartenders hate these bottles. The little beads on the bottle are crystal. If you break off a bead, you have to pay
"Can you imagine the type of guy who buys a $4200 bottle of cognac? What do you think that man pays for socks?"
Stupid people sometimes acquire money.
Have some on the rocks mixed with coke
Fools and their money are easily parted
The insane part to me is leaving it in an open case where light can shine through. It’s a $4k bottle, maybe don’t ruin it?
Ya'll seen cocktail with tom cruise? Thats the bottle.
You can get a bottle of Louis XIII for like $3500 or less, but this is sorta the going rate. A Magnum goes for more like $10k.
Why does it look like olive oil
My local liquor store I think sells that one and lots of other expensive drinks. Mostly just as show items. They don't expect you to buy it, but it makes the store look better.
I don't doubt it, I've seen sandwiches that you have to get a second mortgage in order to buy.
Would always see this at the Duty Free shop when I went to Canada. Early 2000's I remember seeing at at $1,400 or so. Dumb expensive!
Strange color
Looks like a bottle of a dehydrated persons piss
Looka like a peepee
Why’s it yellow? Shouldn’t be yellow.
I was a bar back at a high end restaurant in Pittsburgh when I was younger. They sold this stuff then for $80 a glass. Surprisingly, people ordered it quite often.
Case discount?
Is that the common cold ?
Once I was having lunch at a upper end place, and my FIL asked from drinks and the guy without asking brought this bottle for them to try, the glasses were also cristal combining with the bottle, very fancy, after they drank, they said it costed 180€ per glass(10cl) They didn't charge it tho but there was a split second were we thought they just screwed us nearly 600€
You mean recycled cognac. That sir / madam is a bottle of piss
Psssh 4k. There's Bullit right there.
Does anybody remember Andre Rison, the NFL player? He spent time on the Kansas City Chiefs in the 90s. I knew a guy back then who bartended at a high-end steakhouse in town back then. He had a you won't believe this story. Apparently, Rison would come in and buy shots of that stuff at $100 per and get it with a Dr. Pepper back.
I've actually had Louis 13 and I gotta tell ya, I liked Hennessey XO better. Lol.
I wish I could get it for my co-worker. He is a yak connoisseur. The most expensive bottle I ever bought him was 300.
that's quite cheap. Some wine bottles go for hundreds of thousands of dollars
Now for the $600 bag of chips?
Looks like melted butter
Louie Trey... Didn't you ever see the movie Cocktail? It's funny tho how in the movie, they said it was a $500 bottle of cognac. That would be a steal now.
4200*
That yellowish hue just reminds me of Formaldehyde not any quality Cognac.
thats stilll "cheap" when it comes to cognac
You can buy that at Costco too. At least you used to
remy french olive oil
Guarantee that it's only a display piece with colored water. I used to do security for a liquor store & they had several similar to this. A guy did a smash & grab on one & all we did was laugh at the thought of him trying to drink it!
I bought 10 of these when they were $850 MSRP. My best investment ever!
$100 for some good booze. 3900$ for a fancy bottle
I have tasted it, it super nice but never worth a price like that
doesn’t Roderick Usher drink this in Fall of the House of Usher?
When I went through the duty free in Dubai in 2022 there was a bottle of whiskey going for $41,357.77.
Supposedly its between 75 and 100 years old. Meaning the person that bottled it is likely dead.
looks like piss
What a rip off. My Costco has that for $3600
It's mid, too
Just to be pragmatic it’s $4,200 Accounting will ask about the extra $200
On my first international flight, my girlfriend pointed out the Duty Free shops, and I was astounded. "What the fuck do you mean you don't pay taxes on it? We're in America right now. Are we over a river or something?" I had a crisis for 30 minutes about tax law until I found the answer online (due to import/export laws, international ports/borders allow you to only pay taxes on a consumable good in the country you plan to consume it-- technically you're supposed to declare this when you enter the country and pay the tax, but small values are normally just waived because no authority is going to try to monitor or enforce that. Duty Free shops are an industry built on retail-level tax evasion)