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Re: Can't wait for New Year's Eve.

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Sat, Jul 17 2010 2:18 PM (1 replies)
  • Bezukhov
    32 Posts
    Sat, Jul 17 2010 2:08 PM

    I know that the WGT members enjoy the finer things in life:

    Divers find 230-year-old champagne in Baltic shipwreck

    http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5gUlBVlMg7u8npu_W8--vbfBuHrSQ

    I'll be working a few extra shifts at work between now and then:

    "One strong supposition is that it's part of a consignment sent by King Louis XVI to the Russian Imperial Court," Cromwell-Morgan said. "The makers have a record of a delivery which never reached its destination."

    That would make it the oldest drinkable champagne known, easily beating the 1825 Perrier-Jouet tasted by experts in London last year.

    Cromwell-Morgan estimated the opening price at auction of each bottle at around half a million Swedish kronor (53,000 euros, 69,000 dollars).

    "But if it's really Louis XVI's wine, it could fetch several million," she added.

     

     

  • Richard4168
    4,309 Posts
    Sat, Jul 17 2010 2:18 PM

    That's a cool article.

     

    Cheers!

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