LVMH, a French luxury-goods conglomerate that owns Hennessy cognac, has said it is not interested.

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Former Hennessy Cognac Gold Cup winner Strong Flow will represent Dessie Hughes, with Baron De Feypo and Light On the Broom completing the line-up.

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Detective Angelica Salmeron said she stopped Deon Dennis because he was drinking alcohol out of a plastic cup and had an open bottle of Hennessy cognac on the street with him.

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For two years in the mid-1990s, he was the world's largest buyer of Hennessy Paradis cognac, the company said at the time.

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Also in the wooden case is a bottle of 1896 Hennessy Very Special cognac.

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The French market has been helped by the promotion of cognac as an aperitif, mixed with mineral water or orange juice, while the buoyant American market has been wooed with cognac cocktails such as the Hennessy Martini.

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