The oldest champagne awarded in the world

On Friday, he bought himself the two oldest bottles of champagne in the world ever sold at auction. A Veuve Clicquot, probably from the late 1830s, was sold for 30 euros, breaking the previous world record. Another bottle, from Juglar, a now defunct champagne house, was sold for 000 euros. The price for the two bottles was 24 euros. The buyer made his offers via the Internet.

The sale organized by the company Acker Merall & Condit took place in Åland, an autonomous Finnish archipelago in the Baltic Sea with a population of 27 Swedish-speaking inhabitants. A wreck containing more than 000 well-preserved bottles for the most part had been discovered by local divers. “I hope this is someone who will appreciate them, and of course you have to drink them,” exclaimed Anders Näsman, the diver who discovered the wreck.

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