Bottoms up ! 170-year-old bottle of bubbly could fetch $70,000 at auction
Updated: 2011-05-31 08:46:00
By esley Ciarula Taylor - The Star
The best thing the winning bidders for two bottles of the world’ oldest champagne can do is pop the cork and drink it.Sheltered 50 metres deep in a shipwreck in the chilly, dark Baltic Sea for nearly two centuries, the 170-year-old champagne is still in perfect condition, auctioneer John Kapon told the Star on Monday from Estonia en route to tiny Mariehamn, the capital of the Aland islands.Likely destined for the Imperial Court of Tsar Nicholas...
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