Maison 94 of 100 · Spirits & Gastronomy
Hennessy
The reading
The cognac that taught hip-hop and Place Vendôme the same bottle. Volume at VS, cathedral at Paradis and Richard Hennessy. LVMH’s most important spirits cash register, cyclically sensitive to the US and China.
The house
- Origin
- France
- Founded
- 1765
- Atelier
- Spirits & Gastronomy
- Ownership
- LVMH
- Signature
- V.S. / X.O / Paradis
- Register note
- Cognac category owner This line is the register’s own characterisation, not a sourced figure; see Méthode.
How the register places it
France puts twenty-six maisons into this register, the largest national group, and this is one of them. Of the nine houses filed under Spirits & Gastronomy, it is the 3rd. LVMH holds twenty-one of the hundred, this one among them: Louis Vuitton, Dior, Celine, Fendi, Loewe, Givenchy, and fourteen more. Sorted oldest first, the hundred put it 6th. The register's oldest house is Rémy Martin (1724) and its youngest Genesis (2015); this one was founded 1765. Either side of it by founding year the register puts Creed (1760) and Veuve Clicquot (1772).