World’s most expensive champagne
A bottle of Veuve Clicquot, among the world’s oldest Veuve champagne,
was auctioned for a record setting 30,000 Euros, equivalent to 48
million Sri Lanka rupees near where it was found in a shipwreck at the
bottom of the Baltic Sea.
The nearly 200-year-old bottle was part of the booty from a shipwreck
dating from between 1825 and 1830, and discovered in July last year on
the sea floor near Finland’s autonomous Aaland archipelago.
“This is an emotional bottle, because this is the wine of Madame
Clicquot herself,” Fabienne Moreau, a historian for Veuve Clicquot, told
AFP, referring to Barbe-Nicole Clicquot Ponsardin, the woman who ruled
the famous house in the 19th century.The observers, media and bidding
agents packed into the auditorium in the centre of Mariehamn burst into
applause overnight as auctioneer John Kapon, the head of speciality wine
auctioneer Acker Merrall and Condit, cried: “A new world record, 30,000
Euros!” as he gravelled the winning bid.
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