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No proper made cognac is sweet. its just a perception

Never heard of "Rare Old", tried Rare VSOP and in my opinion is top notch, you should try, way better than Courvoisier.

You seem to be a joke pal.... firstable I never heard about "Hine VSOP Rare Old" (one notch above standard Hine VSOP)", I have checked, the cognac you are talking about just doesn't exist... you have Rare VSOP wich is btw , well balanced with gentle aromas of roasted apricots spices and pepper, then just above you have Antique XO Grande Champagne. In addition to this, a cognac connoisseur, I mean a real one, would never advice a cognac because it has "a lot of caramel", it seems also difficult to smell at the same time flowers and cask in the same cognac... Flowers would be covered by the oak....

@@radigan3724 You are both correct: I mean "Hine VSOP Rare" (not including the word "old"). I wanted to distinguish it from the standard "Hine VSOP" which has the shape of a plain vine bottle and is also called "H by Hine". But that doesn't change my opinion on Hine VSOP Rare. Price-Value is just way too high in my opinion even if I bought that bottle very cheap at 46 Euro. I'm probably not a real connaisseur like you, which may explain what we are discussing.

@@urielnakach4973 I never tried "H by Hine" then I don't know. From what I see the fact remain that if in a cognac you're looking for oak, nuts, deepness, complexity and richness it means you need an XO, then the problem is not the cognac, but the fact you don't know how a VSOP should be appreciate. When it comes to VSOP, you're looking for freshness, yellow fruits, flowers, sharpness, in a way it's way more complicate to obtain a good VSOP as there is nothing you can hide behind the oak...I have tried a lot of VSOP, not only Hine Rare VSOP is an excellent one it's also an amazing price-value. Think about it, you have the wine, then the distillation, then the aging(at least 4 years here but most likely more than that), for all of that 46€ seems to be almost cheap... specially when you see how expensive can be a vodka or a gin....