30 bottles of Champagne that is thought to date back to the 1780′s has been found in a shipwreck in the Baltic Sea.
Providing the bubbly (which has reportedly been perfectly preserved due to the conditions being dark and cold on the seabed) is verified to date back to this sort of date then it will be the oldest drinkable Champagne in the world.
It is believed that the Champagne is a Veuve Clicquot (or Clicquot as it was known back then) and each of the bottles is though to be worth around £45,000!
The value of this Champagne could rise even more if the thought that it was King Louis XVI Champagne that was being sent as a gift to Peter the Great yet it sank and never reached it’s destination.
Christian Ekstrom one of the divers to find the Champagne said this after popping the cork:
“It had a very sweet taste, you could taste oak and it had a very strong tobacco smell. And there were very small bubbles.”
We don’t imagine that many other than the very rich are likely to ever have a bottle of this rare Champagne, but you know if someone buys your a Champagne gift and it’s one of these then you should definitely treasure it.
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