Talent de Thomas Hine was created in 1991 by Bernard and Jacques Hine, the great-great-great-great-grandsons of Thomas Hine, to celebrate the bicentennial of their ancestor's arrival in France. They selected one of their most prestigious cognacs for this occasion. These precious elixirs required an equally precious presentation, and so they called upon master artisans—who, like themselves, had inherited a centuries-old tradition. The result is Talent. Offered in a custom, hand-numbered Baccarat crystal decanter in a hand-crafted humidor case made from Macassar ebony from India and Honduran mahogany, accompanied by four pure crystal tulip glasses created by Bernard Hine.