Embossed Marnier Lapostolle Cognac Bottle.

 

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Embossed: MARQUE DEPOSEE

MARINIER-LAPOSTOLLE

MADE IN FRANCE

FEDERAL LAW FORBIDS SALE OR REUSEE OF THIS BOTTLE

Grand Marnier was founded by Louis-Alexandre Marnier Lapostolle in 1880. His father-in-law, Jean-Baptiste Lapostolle, established what would become Grand Marnier’s first distillery when he began making fruit liqueurs outside of Paris in 1827. Louis-Alexandre came from a winemaking family in Sancerre and started out as an assistant to Jean-Baptiste’s son, Eugene. While working at the distillery, he had a revolutionary idea to pair Cognac with a then-exotic ingredient, oranges, in the Lapostolles’ laboratory. After 10 years of experimentation, Grand Marnier was born.

Louis-Alexandre Marnier Lapostolle had the audacious idea to combine cognac with a rare variety of oranges from the Caribbean. The idea of blending them was simply avant-garde. This was the beginning of Grand Marnier orange and cognac liqueur, whose recipe has remained unchanged ever since.

The brand began in 1880 but continues to this day.  The bottle shown above might be called vintage, but certainly not antique.  Although of a distinctive shape and attractive bottle overall, it is not a blown bottle.  Probably no older than the sixties or seventies.

You can see some of the history of the company and the bottles by using this link.

Our Heritage and Origins | Grand Marnier

Shapely but slender lady's leg with a nice kick-up.  No, I'm not talking about one of the Radio City Rockettes.  It's just a bottle.  Not a real common bottle, but one that might catch your eye.

Reading the embossing, we find Marnier Lapostolle draped across the shoulder.  So what does that tell you?  

The liquor is still sold.  The bottle shown above might be called vintage, but not antique.  And there are several clues to its age.  The Federal Law Forbids Sale message places the bottle after 1935.

If you could look into the glass, you'd see no bubbles.  You'd also see that the seams to all the way to the top.  And the overall look of the bottle is modern.  The glass is thin and of uniform thickness.  I'd guess, without doing any further research, that it dates to maybe the sixties or somewhere around there.

The first bottles were very square in cross section.

The bottle shown at the top of this post is longer and thinner than the iconic shape adopted in 1892, but I have yet to date it precisely.  

It is a brand you can still purchase today.

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