Courvoisier Premier Reserve Cognac – 70cl
Courvoisier VSOP Cognac – 70cl
Courvoisier XO Cognac - 70cl
Courvoisier Cognac
The Cognac of Napoleon — founded 1828 in Jarnac, the youngest of the four great Cognac houses, official supplier to the imperial court of Napoleon III. The first of the major houses to release age-statement cognacs (Connoisseur Collection 12 and 21 Year Old), and the only one owned by a Japanese spirits group — sister to Yamazaki, Hibiki and Hakushu through Suntory. The VSOP, Emperor, XO, 12 Year Old, 21 Year Old and FCN Exclusif, delivered free across Singapore.
Buy Courvoisier Cognac in Singapore
The Liquid Collection stocks the live Courvoisier range available in Singapore — the iconic VSOP, the travel-retail-origin Emperor, the perennial-award-winning XO, the pioneering Connoisseur Collection 12 Year Old (Borderies-driven) and 21 Year Old (entirely Grande Champagne), and the rare FCN Exclusif. Courvoisier is the youngest of the four great Cognac houses and the brand most directly linked to Napoleon Bonaparte's legacy — and uniquely, the only Cognac house in Suntory's portfolio of premium spirits, alongside Yamazaki, Hibiki and Hakushu.
Every bottle ships free across Singapore with no minimum order. Browse the range above, or explore the wider Cognac category, the older houses at Martell (1715), Rémy Martin (1724) and Hennessy (1765), or the prestige cluster at Fine & Rare and Gifts.
The Cognac of Napoleon
The most famous brand story in Cognac is also the simplest. In the early 1800s, Emmanuel Courvoisier and Louis Gallois ran a wine and spirits trading house in the Parisian suburb of Bercy. Among their customers was Napoleon Bonaparte, who had taken the cognac from their cellars and reportedly favoured it. In 1815, after Napoleon's defeat at Waterloo and his exile to the remote Atlantic island of Saint Helena, several barrels of Courvoisier Cognac travelled with him aboard the British ship that carried him into permanent exile. The British officers escorting Napoleon are said to have noticed the imperial cargo and dubbed it "le Cognac de Napoléon" — the Cognac of Napoleon. The name stuck. Decades later, in 1869, Maison Courvoisier was formally named official supplier to the imperial court of Napoleon III, the founder's nephew and the last French monarch. The Napoleon silhouette has been on every Courvoisier bottle ever since, making it one of the most instantly recognisable bottle silhouettes in the world of luxury spirits.
Operationally, Courvoisier became the maison the world recognises today in 1828, when Felix Courvoisier and Jules Gallois — sons of the founders — moved operations from Paris down to the small town of Jarnac in southwest France, on the banks of the Charente river, just downstream from the town of Cognac itself. Jarnac became home to the Courvoisier cellars, and remains so today, in a former 17th-century pavilion that the maison still occupies. The town is also home to Hennessy; Martell and Rémy Martin are based in the town of Cognac itself.
Why Courvoisier — innovation and the Suntory connection
The first major-house age statement
For most of Cognac's history, age statements have been the language of whisky, not Cognac. The standard Cognac classifications — VS, VSOP, Napoléon, XO, Hors d'Âge — communicate minimum age tiers but say little about specific maturation. In 2010, Courvoisier became the first of the four great Cognac houses to break this convention with the Connoisseur Collection — the Courvoisier 12 Year Old (a Borderies-driven blend) and the 21 Year Old (entirely Grande Champagne). Both were introduced under master blender Patrice Pinet, and were possible because Courvoisier had begun systematically cataloguing the precise age of every eau-de-vie in its cellars in 1986 under former master blender Jean-Marc Olivier. The Connoisseur Collection brought a degree of maturation transparency to Cognac that had previously been the preserve of the whisky world — and remains a distinctive Courvoisier innovation.
The Cognac house in Suntory's portfolio
Courvoisier is uniquely positioned among the four great Cognac houses as the only one owned by a Japanese parent company. Since 2014, when Suntory acquired Beam Inc. (which had bought Courvoisier from Allied Domecq in 2005), Courvoisier has been part of Suntory Global Spirits — placing the maison directly alongside Suntory's flagship Japanese single malt distilleries: Yamazaki, Hibiki and Hakushu. The other three great Cognac houses are owned variously by LVMH (Hennessy), Pernod Ricard (Martell), and the family-controlled Rémy Cointreau (Rémy Martin). Suntory's stewardship has continued the Courvoisier traditions while drawing on the Japanese parent's broader expertise in premium aged spirits — a particularly relevant connection given the rising global demand for both Cognac and Japanese whisky.
The Courvoisier house style — rich, floral, aromatic
Courvoisier's house style is distinguished by multi-cru blending with notable Borderies presence (similar to Martell, but expressed differently) and prominent Grande Champagne in the older expressions. Like Hennessy and Rémy Martin, Courvoisier distils on the lees, contributing oily complexity. Like Martell, Courvoisier ages in fine-grained French oak, contributing softer wood character than Hennessy's heavier Limousin signature. The result is a house style that is rich and aromatic, fruit-and-floral driven, with a particular finesse — sitting between Martell's elegance and Hennessy's structure, with the Borderies-led floral character Courvoisier shares with the older Martell tradition.
Across the range, the signature notes are recognisable. The VSOP offers ripe peach, toasted almond, jasmine, toffee, stone fruit and baking spice. The XO blends long-aged Grande and Petite Champagne with a touch of Borderies for vanilla, crème brûlée, candied orange, iris flowers and exotic complexity. The 12 Year Old (Borderies-led) is floral and spicy with violets, orange blossom, clove, ginger, star anise and vanilla. The 21 Year Old (entirely Grande Champagne) reaches dried hazelnut, dried apricot, fig, cocoa, honey, tangy white pepper, candied orange, gingerbread and a long leather-armchair-and-cigar finish.
The Courvoisier range
Courvoisier and the four great Cognac houses
Courvoisier is the youngest of the four great Cognac houses, founded in 1828 — 113 years after Martell (1715), 104 years after Rémy Martin (1724), and 63 years after Hennessy (1765). Stylistically, Courvoisier sits between the older houses with its own distinctive character. Where Martell builds around Borderies and is the elegant floral house, Courvoisier shares Martell's appreciation of Borderies but blends across more crus and lands in a richer, more aromatic register. Where Rémy Martin commits exclusively to Fine Champagne (Grande and Petite Champagne only), Courvoisier blends across multiple terroirs but features prominent Grande Champagne in its older expressions. Where Hennessy is the bold, oak-and-spice global volume leader, Courvoisier is the lighter, more floral, more finesse-driven Jarnac alternative. Most importantly, Courvoisier is the most innovative on age-statement transparency (the Connoisseur Collection) and the only one of the four to be owned by a Japanese spirits group — bringing it into direct corporate sisterhood with Yamazaki, Hibiki and Hakushu, the great Japanese single malt distilleries.
Courvoisier and culture — from Napoleon to hip-hop
Few luxury brands span as wide a cultural range as Courvoisier. At one end, the imperial heritage: the silhouette of Napoleon Bonaparte on every bottle, the appointment as official supplier to Napoleon III in 1869, the centuries-old story of the barrels that travelled to Saint Helena. At the other end, modern American hip-hop and pop culture: in 2002, Busta Rhymes featuring P. Diddy released "Pass the Courvoisier (Part II)," which became a Billboard top-twenty hit and turned Courvoisier into the most-namechecked Cognac in hip-hop alongside Hennessy. Courvoisier has been featured in the James Bond films — both the early Sean Connery era and the Daniel Craig era — typically as the imperial cognac of choice for M and the 00 division. The Suntory ownership has added a further cultural dimension: Courvoisier is now part of the same parent company that owns the great Japanese whisky distilleries, deepening the brand's reach into Asian luxury spirits markets.
Awards and global recognition
Courvoisier has been a fixture at the top of major international Cognac competitions for decades. Courvoisier XO has been recognised as one of the finest XO cognacs in the world by the International Spirits Challenge, the IWSC and the San Francisco World Spirits Competition across multiple decades, and described in the maison's own marketing as a perennial international award-winner. The Connoisseur Collection 12 Year Old and 21 Year Old were broadly recognised on launch in 2010 as the first age-statement releases from any of the four great Cognac houses, and remain genuinely distinctive expressions in the category. Courvoisier VSOP has been honoured with Double Gold at the major US spirits awards. Beyond the awards, Courvoisier's defining contribution to the Cognac category is one of cultural reach: the brand connects 19th-century imperial heritage, late 20th-century US hip-hop culture, modern Japanese spirits ownership, and contemporary age-statement innovation — all in one Cognac maison.
Courvoisier FAQ
What is Courvoisier?
Courvoisier is one of the four great Cognac houses — the youngest of the four, founded in 1828 in the town of Jarnac in southwest France. The house's origins go back further: Emmanuel Courvoisier and Louis Gallois established a Paris-based wine and spirits trading house in 1809, and their sons Felix Courvoisier and Jules Gallois moved operations to Jarnac in 1828, where the maison has remained ever since. Courvoisier is famously known as "the Cognac of Napoleon" — Emmanuel Courvoisier and Louis Gallois supplied Napoleon Bonaparte before his exile, and Courvoisier was later named official supplier to the imperial court of Napoleon III in 1869. The Napoleon silhouette has been on every Courvoisier bottle since. Courvoisier has been part of Suntory Global Spirits (formerly Beam Suntory) since 2014.
Why is Courvoisier called the Cognac of Napoleon?
Courvoisier's Napoleon connection is one of the most enduring brand stories in luxury spirits. The house's founders — Emmanuel Courvoisier and Louis Gallois — operated a Paris-based wine and spirits trading house in the early 1800s and supplied Cognac to Napoleon Bonaparte. According to Courvoisier's own brand history, when Napoleon was exiled to the island of Saint Helena in 1815 following his defeat at Waterloo, he took several barrels of Courvoisier Cognac with him. The British officers escorting him into exile reportedly took to calling it "le Cognac de Napoléon" — the Cognac of Napoleon — and the name stuck. In 1869, Maison Courvoisier was formally named official supplier to the imperial court of Emperor Napoleon III. The Napoleon silhouette has appeared on every Courvoisier bottle since.
What does Courvoisier taste like?
Courvoisier's house style is rich, floral and aromatic — distinguished by its multi-cru blending approach with notable presence of Borderies eaux-de-vie (similar to Martell) and prominent Grande Champagne in the older expressions. The signature notes include ripe peach, jasmine, toasted almond, vanilla, caramel, candied orange, iris, crème brûlée, gingerbread, dried fruit, honey, sandalwood, white pepper and floral spice. The VSOP is a multi-cru blend offering ripe peach, toasted almond, jasmine, toffee, stone fruit and baking spice. The XO blends long-aged Grande and Petite Champagne with a touch of Borderies for vanilla, crème brûlée, candied orange and iris flowers. The 21 Year Old (entirely Grande Champagne) reaches dried hazelnut, dried apricot, fig, cocoa, honey, white pepper, candied orange, gingerbread and a long leather-armchair-and-cigar finish.
Who founded Courvoisier?
Courvoisier was co-founded in 1828 by Felix Courvoisier and Jules Gallois — sons of Emmanuel Courvoisier and Louis Gallois, who had originally established a Paris-based wine and spirits trading house in 1809. Felix and Jules moved operations to Jarnac in southwest France in 1828, settling in the same Charente river region where Hennessy is also based. The maison has remained in Jarnac ever since. The Courvoisier and Gallois families ran the house for several generations before it eventually passed through various corporate ownerships in the 20th century — Hiram Walker, Allied Domecq, Beam Inc., and now Suntory Global Spirits, the Japanese parent company of Yamazaki, Hibiki and Hakushu.
What is the Connoisseur Collection?
The Courvoisier Connoisseur Collection is the house's age-statement range — and notable as the first of the four major Cognac houses to release cognacs with declared age statements rather than only the conventional VS, VSOP and XO designations. Courvoisier's master blender at the time, Patrice Pinet, introduced the collection in 2010 with the Courvoisier 12 Year Old (a Borderies-driven blend) and the Courvoisier 21 Year Old (entirely Grande Champagne). The age statements were possible because Courvoisier had begun systematically cataloguing the precise age of every eau-de-vie in its cellars in 1986 under former master blender Jean-Marc Olivier. The Connoisseur Collection brought a degree of transparency to Cognac maturation that had previously been the preserve of the whisky world.
Who owns Courvoisier?
Courvoisier has been owned by Suntory Global Spirits (formerly Beam Suntory) since 2014, when the Japanese drinks giant Suntory acquired Beam Inc. — which had previously bought Courvoisier from Allied Domecq in 2005. This makes Courvoisier the only one of the four great Cognac houses to be owned by a Japanese parent company, placing the house alongside Suntory's flagship Japanese single malts: Yamazaki, Hibiki and Hakushu. The other three great Cognac houses are owned variously by LVMH (Hennessy), Pernod Ricard (Martell), and family-controlled Rémy Cointreau (Rémy Martin). Suntory's stewardship has continued the Courvoisier tradition while drawing on the Japanese parent's broader expertise in premium aged spirits.
How does Courvoisier compare to the other Cognac houses?
Courvoisier is the youngest of the four great Cognac houses (1828) and sits stylistically between the elegant Martell and the bold Hennessy. Where Martell builds around Borderies and Rémy Martin commits exclusively to Fine Champagne (Grande and Petite Champagne only), Courvoisier blends across multiple crus with notable Borderies presence and prominent Grande Champagne in the older expressions. Where Hennessy is famously oak-forward and structured, Courvoisier is more floral, more aromatic, with a particular finesse and rich fruit character. Courvoisier is also the most innovative on age statements — the Connoisseur Collection (12 Year Old, 21 Year Old) was the first such transparency from any of the four major houses. And Courvoisier's Suntory ownership uniquely connects it to the world of Japanese whisky.
Is Courvoisier a good gift?
Yes — Courvoisier is one of the most universally respected luxury spirits gifts, particularly in Asia and the United States. The VSOP is the entry gift bottle and the iconic Napoleon-silhouette Courvoisier; the Emperor is the considered choice with its travel retail provenance and Asian market focus; the XO is the perennial-award-winning premium gift; the 12 Year Old is the connoisseur's pick for its Borderies-driven age-statement transparency; the 21 Year Old in entirely Grande Champagne is the prestige gift with serious cellar credentials; the FCN Exclusif is the collector's discontinued bottling. See our wider gifts selection for presentation options.
Do you deliver Courvoisier across Singapore?
Yes. Free delivery anywhere in Singapore with no minimum order. Standard lead time is 3 working days.