BOTTLE OF COGNAC
Gift Sold For £lOO
"The Press” Special Service AUCKLAND, March 29. A bottle of cognac which survived the Russian revolution raised £lOO for the Winston Churchill Memorial Trust Fund when it was sold in Auckland last week. It was given by its owner, Lady Lloyd-Jones, of Takapuna, to the Auckland Wine and Food Society to sell for the fund.
Lady Lloyd-Jones bought the 1830 cognac in London in 1945. According to a wine merchant’s certificate the bottle was presented to the Archbishop of Angouleine by wine growers in the Cognac district of France in 1830 as a thanksgiving for a superb vintage. It was one of 20'bottles. After the religious troubles of the day, the certificate says, the cognac went to Paris where it formed part of the City of Paris gift to Czar Alexander IV when he opened a bridge across the river Seine. The Czar presented the bottle to the Imperial Naval Club in Petrograd. After the Russian revolution the bottle found its way to London.
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Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30712, 30 March 1965, Page 7
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171BOTTLE OF COGNAC Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30712, 30 March 1965, Page 7
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