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Has anyone tasted Louis XIII de Rémy Martin?

posted 12 years ago by MrCharmingMan
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Has anyone tasted Louis XIII de Rémy Martin?

After watching this movie I always wanted to taste this but I see it runs for about $2,000 a bottle.

I'm more of a champagne guy than a cognac guy. In fact most cognacs don't really do much for me. The most expensive one I tried was Johnny Walker Blue Label it was about $150.00 for a bottle thats a lot but a whole lot less than $2,000 obviously.

I found the blue label to be quite smooth but I'd assume the Louis XIII de Rémy Martin should blow it out the water right?

So who has tried it? What does it taste like? Does it live up to the hype?

Thanks

[–] strntz 12 years ago

I like cognac, but have never tried the Remy Martin. But one thing I've learned over the years is that the point of diminishing returns happens rather quickly. A $50 bottle is far better than a $15 bottle, but I doubt that Remy Martin is much better than $50 bottle, at least during a double blind test of casual brandy drinkers.

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[–] MrCharmingMan 12 years ago

Well I be some big money on the NBA finals so if I win I'll be buying a bottle unless someone who's actually tried it tells me its not good at all.

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[–] MrCharmingMan 12 years ago

wow like sugar water? so its sweet then?

[–] WoundedPhoenix 12 years ago

Based on the RM's I've tasted, I doubt it's all that sweet (well, it is to a point, but not overly). I think the comparison to sugar water was more that it is as smooth as drinking sugar water.
-WP

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[–] MrCharmingMan 12 years ago

Thats true I stand corrected it is a blended scotch and I prefer that to cognac, well at least the ones I tried

[–] ChristopherSolomon 12 years ago

I tried it just the other night for the first time ever. I do love cognac (and other kinds of brandy) and loved it, but at $190 a shot it was bit much for me. As far as value goes the Remy Paradis and the XO are far better value at a fraction of the price. Nice to try just for the experience but probably won't do it again.

[–] MrCharmingMan 12 years ago

Sweet story thanks for sharing with us bro.

I was supposed to get this big bonus from work and i was going to get a shot like back in May but the bonus never came and so I never tried it. it goes for $200 a shot at this nice restaurant right by my home.

If I ever do it I will for sure take a picture and post it up!

[–] miked272001 11 years ago

Offhand I'd say it's not worth it. But this is coming from a guy that drinks Fleishman's vodka & bud ice. We pulled a prank on a friend of mine years back. He was a self proclaimed 'connoisseur' of scotch. We had an empty blue label bottle that we filled with bottom shelf swill whiskey. Everyone was in on the joke and we poured him a glass. He starts swirling it around the glass smelling it and drinking it, then goes on and on about how great Johnny Walker blue is the best of the best lol.

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[–] MrCharmingMan 11 years ago

lol i won money on some boxing fights and then i went straight to costco to buy a bottle of blue label so basically it was free for me. it cost like $130 but I won about $1500 that night.

i could taste the difference in quality but I am pretty much a champagne and vodka guy though.

so did you taste Louis Tres? or just the fake Blue Label? lol

[–] nutsberryfarm 11 years ago

the only people i've seen drink johnny walker blue (& gold), was when i worked in a booze shop, all the asian gangsters would buy bottles of it w/ cash; tho, i think it was more of status thing than for the actual taste. same w/ louie trey, the black gangsters would buy it with cash too. personally, i don't get paying a lot for spirits. like expensive vodka. the more you spend the more it doesn't taste like vodka. stoli gold @ $30 a 5th is probably the most i'd pay for a vodka--as it still tastes like vodka. and the only bottle i'd buy that cost more than $50 a 5th. would be a 6 year old calvados.

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[–] miked272001 11 years ago

I'd recommend the Fleishman's at $8.99/ 5th - very smooth, uncompromising taste.

Get busy livin..... or die tryin - Morgan Freeman, "The Shawshank Redemption"

[–] nutsberryfarm 11 years ago

i'll try a pint. the most tasty rye whiskey, rittenhouse rye, is only $18-$25 a 5th. and it's 100 proof. so...watch out.

'You can calm down a fool before you can resurrect a corpse.'-John Thompson

[–] jutuomin 8 years ago

My only experience is that I have a bottle of Rémy Martin VSOP at home. I don't really like cognac so I don't drink it much. And hardly anything like King Louis XIII.
My personal opinion is that with some money you usually do get better drinks. I've also had Blue Label which I liked a lot. Of course I paid 200 euros for the bottle and wouldn't buy that very often. Also I do like scotch way more than cognac so that might be a reason too..
As for King Louis XIII I would also like to taste that some day. I wouldn't buy a whole bottle (as I usually don't like cognac), but perhaps there is a smaller sample bottle that I could afford. Or I could find a bar that serve it by glass (which would still be expensive, but probably cheaper than 2600 euros (which it costs here in Finland).

Also this is interesting topic as I always think that after a certain price the drinks do go any better. For instant does a 5000 euro bottle of cognac then taste even better than that? I doubt it.

But for wine I have noticed that good wines do cost over 100 euros per bottle (and that you actually get better wine with that money). A good bottle of cognac costs way more than that (I could pay perhaps 200 euros for cognac when I can afford it). And good scotch would be in the same price as well. When the price goes to hundreds of euros (or thousands even) I don't think there is much of a difference. Even when looking at the bottles it seems that part of the price is the fancy looking bottle.
(Although in wines the most expensive bottles are hardly any different looking than the others).

[–] mobocracy (896) 7 years ago

Johnny Blue is a blended scotch, not a cognac and is completely different.

In my experience, cognac gets better with price for the most part but I don't think Louis XIII is really worth the money. There's a top end to "better" and beyond about $100-200 it's a lot of psychology. I think this is true of most liquor.

[–] kwestmo (4385) 5 years ago

Johnny Walker is a scotch, not a cognac.