Divers Find Oldest Drinkable Champagne in Baltic Wreck
Vintage champagne connoisseurs rejoice: divers in the Baltic Sea have discovered about 30 bottles of champagne from the 1780s in a shipwreck 200 feet below the surface. At an estimated 230 years old, the bubbly breaks the record for the oldest drinkable champagne, beating out Perrier-Jouet’s vintage from 1825. If all of the bottles are intact and undisturbed, they could be worth around $68,000 each.
The divers who discovered the bottles sampled the first one they brought to the surface before they even reached the shore, stating, “it tasted fantastic. It was a very sweet champagne, with a tobacco taste and oak.”
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