What is the greatest luxury life can afford?

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What is the greatest luxury life can afford? What, if your every worldly wish had been fulfilled, might
you yet wish for? Would it be, even if only for an instant, to live beyond the bounds of ordinary life?
Beyond time.Beyond emotion. Beyond sensation. Would it be to experience a whole century in just one
moment ?
Louis XIII at La Bodeguita Miami is that experience. Created by the House of Rémy Martin, it has been the absolute cognac
since 1874, the culmination of a hundred years of craftsmanship, a true act of genius revealing a unique
relationship with time.

LOUIS XIII DE RÉMY MARTIN
Its name evokes the landmarks of history. The famous personalities who made it theirs – Chanel,
Picasso, Churchill or de Gaulle – and the great occasions of which it was a part, from the maiden voyage
of the Normandie, the world’s most luxurious liner, to the supersonic splendour of Concorde.
Its carafe is a history in itself. A mysterious decanter unearthed on the site of a 16th century battlefield,
whose precise origin and purpose will likely never be known. And yet, with its extravagant forms and
regal fleur-de-lys emblems, it seemed predestined to hold this most extraordinary of cognacs.
Now, however, as you raise your glass, it is not the past that preoccupies your mind, but the present that
seduces your senses. For Louis XIII is unlike any cognac have ever experienced before.
It tempts the eye with rich, warm hues of mahogany, characteristic of long-aged eaux-de-vie. It teases
the nose with unmistakable woody notes, evocative of century-old oak casks. And then, all at once,
it explodes in a firework of flowers, fruits and spices, a dizzying alchemy of extremes.
The impact is indescribable. Intense. Powerful. Breathtaking. Just one sip leaves you speechless, your
senses shaken, your mind a blur. Beyond sensation. Beyond emotion. Beyond time.

LOUIS XIII DE RÉMY MARTIN - A TRUE ACT OF GENIUS.
LOUIS XIII, A LEGEND IN THE MAKING.
To create the legend that is Louis XIII, the House of Rémy Martin draws on the long tradition of crafts-
manship it has nurtured since it was founded in 1724.
First comes the terroir, that mysterious blend of soil, climate, vines and man. For Louis XIII, the terroir
is Grande Champagne, the smallest and most prestigious of the six cognac-producing districts, where
the exceptionally chalk-rich soil and specific microclimate provide uniquely favourable conditions. And
within Grande Champagne, the grapes Rémy Martin selects for Louis XIII come from just four villages,
where they are cultivated by the region’s most respected growers.
Once pressed and fermented, the grapes are distilled twice over to produce eaux-de-vie. Alone among
the great cognac houses, Rémy Martin retains exclusively the traditional method of distillation on the
lees in small copper stills, since it is convinced that this is the only way to reveal both the subtlety and
the intensity of Grande Champagne eaux-de-vie.

Only then can the crucial processes of aging and blending take place. Louis XIII is an intricate alchemy
of 1,200 of the finest eaux-de-vie that Grande Champagne can produce, each one contributing its own
individual nuances and character. The Cellar Master whose responsibility it is to create this most elabo-
rate of blends must be at once a craftsman, an artist and a visionary, for it is on his work that the future
depends. He knows that he will never see the culmination of his craft – indeed, three generations of Cel-
lar Masters preside over the making of a single bottle of Louis XIII.
The eaux-de-vie are aged in century-old “tierçon” barrels of Limousin oak, which are laid down in the
limestone-walled cellars of Le Grollet, the historic home of the Rémy Martin family. Over the years,
they may be moved from one cellar to another, transferred from one barrel to another, to ensure they
develop harmoniously and reveal their full aromatic potential.
And throughout, time will do the work it alone can do. Only after a hundred years of aging and blending,
blending and aging, will the “tierçon” barrels yield up their treasure. Louis XIII, the King of cognacs,
an act of genius, a century in a bottle. With no questions asked, Louis XIII, the king of cogacs is the greates!