Divers found the oldest champagne on Baltic seabed

 

On the Baltic seabed divers have found 30 bottles of champagnes which is pre-dated to the French revolution.

When they opened the bottled they found that the wine was made by veuve clicquot between the years 1782 to 1788 and they also found that the wine is still in good condition.

The shape of the bottle indicates that the wine was produced in the 18th century and the bottles were now been send to France for analysis. If this has been confirmed in the test then this will be oldest drinkable champagne in the world.

The bottles were found by diver Christian erstrom when he was exploring a shipwreck in the Baltic seabed.

The diver took the bottles to the surface where he opened it and tasted it along with his colleagues. He said the reporters that the wine tasted fantastic.

He explained the wine as “it has a very sweet taste and had the taste of the oak and had the strong smell of tobacco. The wine has only very small bubbles.

The bottles were found at the seabed on 16th July 2010 and the experts think that the bottles would go for a high price at the public sale.

The wines were still in good condition because of the darkness and the cold temperature under the seabed which helped the wine to preserve the wine themselves.

If the research says that the bottle comes from 1780s then it would be around 40 years old and the current record holder is a bottle of Perrier jouet from 1825.

And the wine experts have judged that each bottle would go for around 500,000 Swedish kronor.