Unique champagne discovery at åland.

[Gerald]

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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