Dutch collector Lars Janssen made an amazing discovery when he found a bottle of cognac in his stash that was produced back in 1696.
This fact may claim to set a new world record, since the cognac of a Vietnamese collector, considered the oldest in the world, is 24 years younger (made in 1720).
An independent expert confirmed the authenticity of the cognac.
The cognac was produced more than 328 years ago (the age was determined by experts without taking into account the bottling date).
The drink was produced during the reign of King Louis XIV of France, and was bottled in glass approximately 200 years later, in the late 1880s or early 1890s.
Faceted lead crystal with gold opaque was used to make the container, which carefully stores the oldest cognac in the world.
The bottle is closed with an original cork with a wax seal and gold inscription applied to it.
Jules Robin and Edmond Jolin founded their cognac house in 1850, but the raw materials for production had already been aged for a long time.
That's why they put the year 1696 on the bottle to indicate the date the cognac was produced.
After his retirement in the late 1890s, Jolin received this specimen as a gift from Robin.
Jolin's grandson Edmond, facing financial difficulties, sold the bottle to collector Pierre de Lannoy in the 1950s.
In 2001, the cognac from the de Lannoy collection was purchased by Christian Vigneron, and in 2018, Lars bought the bottle from him for 142,500 euros, according to information on the Guinness Book of Records website.
