Vintage Early Landed (((Bottled 2007)))
⏳ Drinking Window
Cognac does not mature further once bottled. This vintage is fully matured and ready to enjoy immediately, and it will maintain its pristine quality for several decades if stored upright in a cool, dark place.
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Dark chocolate tart, Roquefort cheese, glazed duck breast
✨ Technical Specifications
Hine's 'Early Landed' Cognacs represent one of the most romantic and unique traditions in the spirits world. Originating in the 19th century, this practice involves shipping selected casks of single-vintage Cognac—distilled from the chalky, premier cru soils of Grande Champagne—across the English Channel to age in the United Kingdom. The 1993 vintage was shipped to the damp, cool, and remarkably stable maritime cellars of Bristol shortly after harvest, where it matured until being bottled in 2007. This high-humidity, low-temperature environment drastically alters the aging process compared to the drier cellars of Jarnac, reducing the strength of the alcohol more rapidly than the volume of the liquid. The result is an exceptionally delicate, ethereal Cognac, celebrated for its pale hue, floral elegance, and nuanced notes of citrus peel, orange blossom, and soft oak.
🍾 About the Producer
Established in 1763 along the banks of the Charente River in Jarnac, Thomas Hine & Co. represents one of Cognac's most distinguished artisanal houses, underscored by being the sole cognac house to hold a British Royal Warrant since 1962. Hine centers its philosophy on the premier crus of Grande and Petite Champagne, farming 115 hectares across the chalk-dominant, undulating hillsides of Bonneuil under certified sustainable practices (HVE and CEC). Under long-standing Cellar Master Eric Forget, the house champions the belief that monumental cognac begins as pristine white wine. Vinified exclusively from Ugni Blanc, the wines undergo double distillation on fine lees in traditional Charentais copper pot stills, followed by aging in lightly toasted, fine-grained French oak casks to preserve floral vivacity and mineral nuance. Renowned for its single-estate and single-vintage bottlings, Hine is celebrated globally for benchmarks such as Antique XO Premier Cru, Homage Grand Cru, and its legendary Early Landed vintages matured in humid British cellars.
🍇 Base Ingredient
Ugni Blanc
🍷 Alcohol By Volume (ABV)
40%