Chinese New Year Limited Edition XO
⏳ Drinking Window
As a fully matured spirit, this Cognac is bottled at its peak and does not age or improve in glass. It is ready to be enjoyed immediately upon release and will remain in perfect condition for decades when stored upright and away from direct light.
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Dark chocolate truffles, slow-roasted Peking duck, and mature artisanal cheeses such as aged Gouda or Comté.
✨ Technical Specifications
This limited-edition release celebrates the 2023 Lunar New Year, the Year of the Rabbit, featuring striking bottle and packaging artwork by the renowned Chinese-French contemporary artist Yan Pei-Ming. Inside the artistic decanter is Hennessy's legendary XO Cognac, a historic blend first created in 1870 by Maurice Hennessy for his inner circle of friends. It is masterfully blended from approximately one hundred distinct eaux-de-vie sourced from Cognac's premier crus, including Grande Champagne, Petite Champagne, Borderies, and Fins Bois. Aged in French oak casks, this robust spirit delivers a multi-layered sensory experience characterized by rich notes of candied fruit, dark chocolate, wild cocoa, and a distinctive, warming black pepper spice that lingers on the finish.
🍾 About the Producer
Founded in 1765 by Irish officer Richard Hennessy along the banks of the Charente River, Maison Hennessy has defined the architecture and prestige of modern Cognac. Sourcing primarily Ugni Blanc across the region's elite crus—notably Grande Champagne, Petite Champagne, Borderies, and Fins Bois—the house relies on chalk-dense, limestone-rich soils and a temperate maritime microclimate to achieve base wines of searing natural acidity. Double-distilled on the lees in traditional Charentais copper pot stills, the unaged eaux-de-vie mature inside fine-grained French Tronçais and Limousin oak casks, orchestrated through humid and dry aging cellars. The blending process has been shepherded across eight generations of the Fillioux dynasty, overseen today by Renaud Fillioux de Gironde and the venerated Tasting Committee. From benchmark bottlings such as V.S.O.P Privilège and X.O to crowning legacy assemblages like Hennessy Paradis and Richard Hennessy, the house embodies exceptional purity, structure, and centuries of architectural blending finesse.