The Hennessy version was created to celebrate the bicentennial of the French brandy founded in 1765 in Cognac, by the Irishman, Richard Hennessy.
The beautiful Vendanges, as the name suggests, depicts locals engaged in various tasks during the grape harvest. Framed by a lush grapevine border, Caty Latham-Audibert, also known as Caty Latham, incorporates baskets overflowing with gathered grapes, a wine press, wine barrels and the final beverage itself into her design. In the Hennessy version, the Hennessy logo, in the right bottom corner, mirrors the Hermès logo along with the copyright skillfully hidden within the design; identifying this as the 1965 Limited Issue. This version lacks both the Hennessy logo and the harvest colours are not quite so rich, but remain as vibrant as the day the scarf was made!
Richard Hennessy was the first to distill brandy in the town of Cognac and at the beginning began to export his “brandy” only to his native Ireland. It was not too long after that, that the entire region, as well as the beverage itself, took on the name Cognac. Today Hennessy is still one of the world’s leading exporters of brandy, an honour Hennessy has been holding since the 1840s.
This scarf should not be confused with Valerie Dawlat’s Vendanges of 2001.
