There’s no humble way to say that you’ve had the opportunity to open an old bottle of nice Cognac, so I’m not even going to try. I did it, and I’m glad. But there was a surprise…
I didn’t expect to see lead foil on a bottle of Cognac. But it was a bottle from the 1960s, and lead foil was used on many bottles of alcohol into the 1990s. Even wine.
The bottle belonged to my husband Cy’s uncle Hooshang. Hooshang was a pediatrician in New York City for over 60 years. His apartment in lower Manhattan was filled with gifts from grateful patients and their parents, as well as from colleagues. Some of these included fine bottles of liquor.