OK, admittedly, we’re a little late to post this but it’s not like it’s our habit to pop a bottle of champagne everyday, unlike a bottle of beer. Well, in case you haven’t heard about it yet, what seems to be the oldest champagne in the world was recently discovered by divers in a Baltic shipwreck.
Believed to be 230-years-old, 30 bottles of champagne were discovered at a depth of 55 metres. Possibly from the house Veuve Clicquot, it’s thought that it was sent by France’s King Louis XVI and bound for the Russian Imperial Court.
Who looks older – the dude or the bottle?
“We have contacted (makers) Moet & Chandon and they are 98 percent certain it is Veuve Clicquot,” Christian Ekstroem, part of the diving team was quoted.
According to wine expert Ella Gruessner Cromwell-Morgan, the champagne has not lost its fizz and was “absolutely fabulous”.
“There’s a lot of tobacco, but also grape and white fruits, oak and mead,” she said of the wine’s “nose”.
“One strong supposition is that it’s part of a consignment sent by King Louis XVI to the Russian Imperial Court,” Cromwell-Morgan said. “The makers have a record of a delivery which never reached its destination.”
That would make it the oldest drinkable champagne known, easily beating the 1825 Perrier-Jouet tasted by experts in London last year.
It’s estimated that each bottle could fetch around US$69,000 dollars. But if proven to be from the cellar of Louis XVI, it could fetch several millions.
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