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.