Maison 99 of 100 · Spirits & Gastronomy
Rémy Martin
The reading
Only Fine Champagne eaux-de-vie — Grande and Petite Champagne crus. XO is the commercial monument. The serious cognac drinker’s house, sitting beside its own cathedral, Louis XIII.
The house
- Origin
- France
- Founded
- 1724
- Atelier
- Spirits & Gastronomy
- Ownership
- Rémy Cointreau
- Signature
- X.O / 1738 / Louis XIII sister
- Register note
- Fine Champagne cognac only This line is the register’s own characterisation, not a sourced figure; see Méthode.
How the register places it
This register files two houses to Rémy Cointreau; the others are Louis XIII. It is the 1st-oldest house in the register. 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 8th. Two countries are represented in Spirits & Gastronomy here, and this house files to France. No house filed under Spirits & Gastronomy here was founded earlier. Its rank puts it in the fourth quarter of the hundred. Blancpain (1735) are its closest neighbours by founding year here.