1811 Wine and Port Vintage
This Year in History: Fun Fact: Building of Regent Street begins John Nash's development of the West End of London.
Born in this Year: Robert Bunsen was a German chemist who developed the Bunsen burner with his laboratory assistant Peter Desaga. A pioneer in photochemistry, he developed several gas-analytical methods and also performed research in the field of organoarsenic chemistry.
Cognac: 1811 was regarded at the time as the greatest vintage in living memory, and is now universally held to be the finest vintage of the 19th century throughout the vineyards of Western Europe. In the same year, Napoleon himself visited the region, and was presented with a barrel of cognac as a gift for his young son. Many ascribed the extraordinary weather to the remarkable astronomical event that had dominated the year. The exceptional quality of 1811 cognac was recognised immediately, and the leading producers marked the vintage either with the date on the bottle, or, more unusually, with a picture of the comet forever associated with the vintage. The date "1811" or the star (as the comet symbol soon became) were regarded as signs of infallible quality, and the leading producers were not slow to exploit this. The Russian Empire removes Anton II, Catholicos Patriarch of Georgia, from his office, placing a Russian-appointed bishop at the head of the Georgian church. The Argentine Government declares freedom of expression for the press.
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Napolean Cognac, 1811
Grande Reserve Naploean Cognac
Grande Reserve, rear label states 'This bottle contains about 12 fluides (sic) ounces Cognac Fine Champagne Distilled in 1811. Conserved in the wood since its origine and put into bottles in 1903 at Cognac. Eighty American Proof'
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