

Read moreThe golden age of Paris is celebrated on a unique tour organised by one of the world's most famous names in cognac. Read moreParis is one of those incredible cities that you can go to many, many times yet every time I’ve visited I learn lots of new things about the history of the French capital. Read moreParis is such an enigmatic city, and I fall in love with the city of lights every, single, time.
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Cognac for under $30 Exclusif sells for about $50, a price that I suspect is meant to lure the status conscious. You can get a good, cocktail-friendly V.S. I also think that the price is an essential part of the marketing - and that it has been set somewhat high on purpose. Exclusif comes in a tall, slightly flared bottle clearly meant to be within the aesthetic comfort zone of drinkers accustomed to slender vodka bottles (and likely put off by the squat shape of Courvoisier's traditional container). Perhaps more important to its success than the taste of the spirit, however, will be the style of its package.
