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The Classicist: LVMH's Distinctive Vintages

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French luxury goods conglomerate LVMH is best known for its marquee property Louis Vuitton, but the company has also amassed the world's most amazing collection of top-class wine and spirits brands under its Moët Hennessy group. The incomparable portfolio is celebrated in a suitably lavish new book called Distinctive Vintages ($200, right) just out from Flammarion.

Moët Hennessy owns too many luxury brands to list, but to name a few: Hennessy Cognac; Moët & Chandon, luxe Dom Pérignon, Krug and Veuve Clicquot champagnes; Belvedere and Chopin vodkas; Glenmorangie and deliciously smoky Ardbeg single malt Scotch whiskies; and the famed Chateau d'Yquem wine, synonymous with the finest money can buy.

The book focuses on the collection of fine French wines and spirits, personified in three regions that are "as noble as they are prestigious": Cognac, the ancestral birthplace of Hennessy; Champagne, home Dom Pérignon and its confreres; and Bordeaux, graced by the magical Château d'Yquem. It offers both a practical guide to the three regions as well as an explanation of the different vintages and results produced by the famed houses.

Gallery: Distinctive Vintages

Drawing rooms of the hôtel du Marc, Reims

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The Great Antique Yquem Collection

by Deidre Woollard (RSS feed) —

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We already know the Chateau d'Yquem can be pricey, after all, a single bottle of the 1787 went for $90,000 earlier this year but what about owning every vintage of Chateau d'Yquem since 1860? Decanter reports on The Great Antique Yquem Collection, a collection of Sauternes first growth stretching from 1860 to 2002. This comprehensive collection will be offered for sale by the Antique Wine Company. The wines will be displayed in a pair of cabinets custom-built by furniture designer David Linley. How much will it go for? It's hard to know but it should fetch at least a million or two. The vintages are all said to be in great shape with many of the older bottles having been re-corked at Yquem. The collection will also include tasting notes for all the wines. The Antique Wine Company has a mailing list for the sale so you can be the first to know when it takes places.

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