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Last week Netflix released ‘The Fall of the House of Usher‘, an eight-episode miniseries that tells the horror story of the fall of a family pharmaceutical empire, amidst power dynamics and acts of violence.
If we put the spotlight on one of its episodes, we can see how Roderick pulls out a metal bottle and offers Dupin a drink. Henri IV Dudognon Heritage Cognac Grand Champagne. The most expensive in the world. This bottle cost four million euros at auction,’ Roderick explains.
Produced since 1776. Aged in casks for over 100 years. And the bottle itself plated in 18 carat yellow gold, encrusted with 4,100 high quality diamonds. A single pour probably costs twice your annual salary,’ he adds.
All this seemingly absurd and illusory narrative could be part of a ‘fictional reality’, but it is not. And it even contains a greater degree of opulence: it turns out that one such bottle is plated in 24-carat gold and has 6,500 diamonds. A 2008 article noted that the bottle in question had sold for $2 million.
Thus, series director Mike Flanagan, in order to intensify the family’s extravagance and ostentation, includes several very expensive brands of liquor throughout the episodes, similar to this brandy dressed in gold and carat.
