Today Hennessy sell around 50 million bottles of cognac per year and account for more than 40% of the world’s supply. HENNESSY PURE WHITE 700ML Related products TORRESELLA PROSECCO ROSE 750ML APOTHIC RED WINE 750 ML PERNOD PARIS 1 LTR BAREFOOT FRUITSCATO APPLE. The elegant, double-distilled cognac is very smooth and easy to drink. The smooth drink is bottled at 40 percent ABV. It is an interesting blend of eaux-de-vie from the Grande Champagne, Petite Champagne, Borderies, and Fins Bois areas. An unusual bottling of Hennessy, this particular expression is said to express the qualities of the white wines from which it is. Hennessy Black 1L Hennessy Pure White 70cl Hennessy Paradis Rare. Hennessys carefully crafted image is a perfect mirror of the care they take when creating their products, from the distinct shapes of their glamorous bottles to the deep glowing color of the cognac itself. The business was further strengthened in 1987 by the merger with fashion house, Louis Vuitton to create LVMH, however due to a managerial crisis the following year, Guinness (now Diageo) also came on board by securing a 34% share. According to an employee, the Hennessy Pure White Cognac is a difficult cognac to produce. Hennessy is known the world over as a sign of luxury and good taste. In 1971 she oversaw the merger of the business with French wine giant, Moët & Chandon, which created one of the biggest drinks companies in the world. Fast forward to the 1970s and Kilian Hennessy, a fifth-generation descendant of Richard became the CEO of the family business.
In addition, Hennessy and the other cognac producers at the time also benefitted from rum shortages due to the Seven Years War. Hennessy found himself in the right place at the right time as trade in alcoholic spirits was booming, extremely popular not only with the French but also with many people within the British Empire. When the Irish Jacobite, Richard Hennessy, founded a distillery in 1765, he could not have possibly foreseen the scale to which his fledgling business would grow.
An unusual bottling of Hennessy, this particular expression is said to express the qualities of the white wines from which it is distilled.