Dallas’ Pappas Bros. Steakhouse is selling insanely expensive cognac

by Teresa Gubbins

DALLAS — Pappas Bros. Steakhouse, probably the best steakhouse in Dallas, is now serving a just-released cognac that costs -- you sitting down? -- $595 per ounce.

Called Louis XIII Black Pearl, the cognac was released in March from the Rémy Martin private family reserve.

So how do you get to charge so much for cognac?

• Only 786 decanters were drawn from a single 100-year-old tierçon, which, as any idiot knows, is an oak barrel used for aging brandy
• Only 100 of those decanters made it to the United States
• Pappas Bros. Steakhouse has the only bottle in Dallas
• Black Pearl contains the finest eaux de vie (which Wiki says is "a French term for a colorless brandy"), some even more than 100 years old
• Fancy package: a one-of-a-kind hand-blown "black crystal Baccarat decanter, finished with platinum fleur-de-lis designs"

A serving of cognac at Pappas Bros. usually contains a minimum of one ounce, though you're certainly welcome to order a double. So come on, pony up for a glass of Louis XIII Black Pearl, quit being such a tightwad with those bills in your pocket, what are you going to do, take it with you to the grave?

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