NEWS IN decanter

Bordeaux-based sculptor Etienne Meneau has created a series of mind-blowing wine decanters, including this artistically provocative “Grand Coeur”, or “Big Heart” in French. It measures 32cm high and it is hand-wrought from borosilicate glass to look just like a human heart when filled up with your favourite red. “This is my blood…”

“The king is dead, long live the king”. Here the famous motto. As the years go by, the supreme and sacred title remains. It is etched in stone braving the dusty and corroding weight of time, ready for welcoming the new radiant chosen. HME is on the verge of celebrating a highly-exclusive coronation in a few days. Please don’t think about Union Jack, King Lear or Westminster Abbey. The throne is waiting on the other side of the Channel, in the very heart of the age-old French enemy, in Cognac.

When you allude to years of life, Louis XIII speaks multi-centuries line of descent. Louis XIII has been brilliantly ruling the Cognacs kingdom for decades and the dynasty is just about to welcome its new monarch with great pomp. The genuine epitome of the perfect breed by Rémy Martin. No more than the finest top-end masterpiece HME has unveiled to your bewitched eyes.

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