How A Poor Irish Refugee Created Hennessy
The Hennessy origin story is one of the wildest founder stories in the history of luxury — because it starts not with grapes or distilleries, but with a Catholic Irish exile fleeing religious persecution and landing on a French battlefield with nothing but his name and a sword. Richard Hennessy left everything behind in County Cork, fought for a foreign king, nearly died at the Battle of Fontenoy, and somehow ended up settling in the Cognac region of France — where he built a trading empire that would become the world’s largest cognac producer, now selling over 100 million bottles [See More…]
