The Erte Courvoisier Cognac Collection
  
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What is the Erte Collection?

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Courvoisier the world's leading producers of fine cognacs commissioned famed Art Deco artist and fashion illustrator Erté to create a series of 7 decanters, each symbolizing different aspects of the cognac making process. The legendary cognac house commissioned the seven bottle set from the Russian-born artist for its extraordinary blend of precious Grande Champagne cognacs, dating back to 1892.
 
The last remaining sets which had been held in reserve were recently sold for $10,000 apiece; only eight of them made their way to the U.S. market in November 2008.  The 7 facets of the cognac making process as depicted by Erté are:

  1. Vigne (Vine) shows the importance of the soil and environment to the grapes produced to make cognac.
  2. Vendanges (Harvest) celebrates the passion of perfection for which Courvoisier is best known.
  3. Distillation illustrates the process of distillation as a woman riding a volatile giant peacock.
  4. Vieillissement (Aging) symbolizes the aging process as a robed female emerging from darkness.
  5. Degustation (Tasting) shows the blending process of the cognacs. 
  6. L'Esprit du Cognac (The Spirit of Cognac) interprets the cognac spirit as a woman standing majestically surrounded by grapes.
  7. La Part Des Anges (Angel's Share) symbolizes part of the aging process where some of the spirits' volume is lost through evaporation.

Amazing stuff to be sure but there's more:

An 8th bottle was designed and produced....

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Within Courvoisier, the 8th Erté bottle is called a Special Edition and is potentially the most valuable, because only 4,000 were produced, or one-third the volume of the others. It was not an original member of the Erté collection because it was deemed too risqué to put on the market. In fact, the U.S bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, which must approve all alcoholic beverages labels for the American market, rejected it, so Courvoisier held it back.

When finally released in 1994 after a more permissive BATF gave approval, it was called Inédit, or Unpublished, to symbolize the earlier rejection. It is the only one in the Erté Collection to depict a women with breasts bared, although the tasteful Art Deco depiction would scarcely be deemed risqué even by the most Victorian of critics. In common with the other decanters in the Erté Collection, Inédit was hand-crafted in crystal using such fine materials as 24-carat gold and rare color pigments.

The owners of King's Beverage Company have been astute collectors of both Wines and Cognacs for years and have assembled one of the only available collections of all 8 Erte designed Cognac bottles in the World.

The collection is on display at King's Beverage Company.  It's amazingly beautiful artwork and I'm sure the cognacs not half bad either.

Stop by King's on your next trip and check it out.

 

 

 

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