You can now drink 100-year-old Australian cognac – no, really
by Maxim Donni · Australian Financial ReviewMaxim DonniProduction editor, Life & Leisure
May 14, 2026 – 5.00am
Australia now has its very own century-old cognac, and it’s not just some fraudulent brandy dupe playing fast and loose with the name. Given Australia is 17,000 kilometres from France’s Cognac region, pedants will declare this is impossible. And technically they’d be correct. But in this instance it’s a distinction without a difference.
The spirit in question is the A.100 Famille Cabanne, from Melbourne-based independent bottler Old Master Spirits. A Grande Champagne cognac, it was distilled in 1921, matured for 103 years in re-fill French oak from the go-to cooperage of Seguin Moreau, and bottled at cask strength last November in the village of Bourg-Charente, just outside Cognac.
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Maxim DonniProduction editor, Life & LeisureMaxim Donni is the production editor of Life & Leisure at the Financial Review, based in Sydney. He writes about dining, hospitality and culture, and was previously editor of Time Out and Concrete Playground. Email Maxim at maxim.donni@afr.com
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