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“Creation is an uncontrolled muscle”
according to Arik Levy (born 1963)
Arik Levy
For Hennessy
WORDS: Arik Levy
PHOTOS: Arik Levy
Since its foundation, more than 250 years ago, our Maison has
never stopped reinventing itself. Driven by their passion for the
exceptional, 2 families, the Hennessys and the Fillioux, share
this adventure, relentlessly thriving for perfection and always
ready to face new challenges.
While preparing to pass the legacy in to the hands of his
nephew, current Master Blender and Taster Yann Fillioux
wanted to create a unique cognac. Hennessy 8 was born.
Yann Fillioux has worked with Hennessy for 50 years, raising
the art of blending to the highest level and combining his
exceptional talent with creativity and consistency, passion and
rigor, avant-garde daring and uncompromising loyalty to the
house’s history and to his predecessors.
Artist, technician, photographer,
designer, video artist, Levy’s skills
are multi-disciplinary and his work
can be seen in prestigious galleries
and museums worldwide.
For half a century, he has been tasting and testing Hennessy
cognac, innovating while protecting, developing and improving
it.
Hennessy 8 is the culmination of his impressive lifework. It also
represents a transfer from one generation to the next that has
long been in preparation. Yann Fillioux has always believed that
the importance of a heritage like the one he has tended for so
many decades lies above all in its ability to be transmitted and
enriched by his successors.
So we see that Hennessy 8 is both timeless and contemporary
of a new generation of Master Blender and Taster, Renaud
Fillioux de Gironde, future successor to his uncle Yann Fillioux.
Renaud is the 8th generation of the Fillioux family, present
within Hennessy since 1800, and who will be writing a new
chapter of the Hennessy saga.
The fruit of 5 years of work, and the synthesis of 250 years
centuries of savoir-faire, Hennessy 8 is the symbol of this
legacy. It celebrates the continuity within generations and
talents.