200 year old bubbly

[AVGWarhawk]

http://abcnews.go.com/Travel/wireStory?id=11186952

[aergistal]

What a lucky find. Those bottles must be pretty valuable.

[Gerald]

Post Unique champagne discovery at åland. Orginal :07-17-2010 02:49 AM
The world's oldest champagne can be found in a wreck in Åland waters. The bottles being studied in France and it would prove to be the real thing can be worth half a million dollars each.
It was after a tip from fishermen Ekstrom, together with a Swedish-Åland dykarlag went down to the wreck at 55 meters depth, wrote Åland newspaper on Friday.
According to Ekstrom wreck is almost completely intact and probably fell in the late 1700s. Dykarlaget found a large number of undamaged bottles in shape like champagne bottles.
- I brought a bottle to determine the time the wreck as it may determine the time the appearance of a bottle of ten years when, "says Ekstrom.
The form indicates that the bottle is from the 1780s and when Ekstrom beat up the cork and poured the drink, he thought it tasted like champagne. He had also sommelier Grüssner Ella Cromwell-Morgan taste of the drink. And she is the lyrical content.
- The drink was amber-colored and packed with flavors. It was very ripe fruit, hints of yellow raisins, and a sharp taste of tobacco leaves, "says wine steward to Åland magazine.
The Swedish scholar Richard Juhlin Champagne, who has written six books on mushroom, think it is a known brand and traditions.
- Anchor the cap tells me that there is a Veuve Clicquot (Veuve Clicquot). It could also be a Blanquette de Limoux, but with 98 percent certainty I can say that there is a Veuve Clicquot, "said Juhlin.
The bottles have now been sent to a French laboratory that will try to determine the exact year and from which the drink will. It appears that the bubble will drink from the Champagne region, it is a world record and the bottles can be worth half a million dollars each. World's oldest drinkable champagne comes from the 1825th But neither diver Ekstrom vinsamlare world or learn to access the bottles. According Åland law wrecks older than 100 years old ancient one belonging to the Åland Islands.

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[Jimbuna]

Send a bottle over for the wife Chris...she's a bit partial to the stuff :DL

[FIREWALL]

I for one have learned a very valuable lesson here.:know:
And it ain't about bubbly.

[AVGWarhawk]

Send a bottle over for the wife Chris...she's a bit partial to the stuff :DL

I'll send two in case one breaks while in transit. :up:

[Alex]

Of all kinds of wine, not only champagne is the one and only of which its flavour does not improve with age... But also it turns sour.

These divers are either crooks, or do not have good tastes in wine.

By the way, do not keep champagne at home for too long without drinking it : after 2 years the beverage loses its qualities and starts corrupting itself.

[FIREWALL]

You are very misinformed about Champagne Alex. 2yrs ?

http://www.newluxuryitems.com/ten-most-expensive-champagne.html

Look at the years on this bubbly.

[Alex]

I am rather well informed, I'd say : I was speaking in terms of taste and flavour.

But a 20 years old bottle of Piper Heidsieck will cost a lot more than a bottle of a recent vintage : what you buy there is no more the champagne itself, but its brand. ;)

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Hmm, and well... Without trying to be racist towards ya americans : do not believe too much in yourself when you speak about stuff that others produce, hehe. ;)

[onelifecrisis]

@Alex
Last time I was in the US someone handed me a bottle of Champagne to cork. I read the small print and it said "made in California"
They just don't get it do they ;)

[FIREWALL]

Actually we here in CA. do get it. Awards that is. We don't have to fortify our wines with antifreeze.:DL

[Alex]

You like your stuff and it's good that way, then. :yeah:

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@Alex
Last time I was in the US someone handed me a bottle of Champagne to cork. I read the small print and it said "made in California"
They just don't get it do they ;)

True, I didn't even remember those people were pretentious enough to produce their own champagne, with transgenic grape without seeds in it of course, Champagne, yes, but the American way :know: :smug:. Saw that at TV the other day.