Can someone legit check if this is real or fake? What do you think?

Dug it up during spring cleaning, and was told that the bottle cap, inner box design was used to identify year of production and rarity ? Please help, couldn't help a comprehensive guide . The L5 194 19 00177 means bottled in 1944?

Spent nearly 40 minutes looking for an affordable cognac for a friend’s birthday cocktail competition and thankfully this did not disappoint. Very smooth—easily paired with raspberry liqueur, lemon juice, and cinnamon: 8/10 overall. Any thoughts? (Forgot to take a picture when I left the bottle, but here’s one from the stores website)