Thirty thousand euros for a champagne
The world's oldest sparkling wine was sold for a record 30 thousand euros at a Finnish auction. The bottle spent nearly 170 years in the bottom of the sea, inside a ship wreck. An also 170 years old champagne sold for 24 thousand euros at the auction.
The two bottles were auctioned, in Aaland, Finland in one of the island of the Finnish islands, consist of 6500 islands. The sparkling wines were found in November not far from the island, from a ship wreck. The destination of the sparkling wines is not yet known, but according to a diver; the shipment's destination was the Russian Czar's court in St. Petersburg – reports origo.
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