Limited stocks available as world demands exceeds production. In 1870, X.O. was created by Hennessy for the personal use of Mr. Maurice Hennessy, his family and freinds. Over a century later, this blend of more than one hundred very old 'Eau-de-Vie' from Cognac's finest growing regions, carefully nurtured in cellars which contain the worlds largest reserves of old Cognac, remains the reference, 'The Original'.