Divers to bring world's oldest champagne to surface off Finnish coast - Polidicks

[QUOTE]Work to bring to the surface 70 bottles of what may be the world's oldest drinkable champagne began on Tuesday afternoon in the Baltic Sea off Finland's Aland archipelago, media reports said. "Approximately 70 bottles of exclusive champagne will be lifted from a 200-year-old shipwreck near [the island of] Foglo in the south of the Aland archipelago. The well-preserved bottles, which lie on the seabed at the depth of about 50 meters, are now being lifted to surface," Aland authorities said in a statement. Sweden's Tidningarnas Telegrambyra news agency reported, however that the bottles have already been brought up. It said the work was carried out secretly to keep the media and crowds of spectators away. A group of Swedish and Finnish divers found the champagne in mid-July. Initially, they took one bottle to the surface in an attempt to establish the ship's age, and found out that the bottle design was typical for the 1780s. The champagne, which was stored in almost perfect conditions at a constant temperature of four degrees Centigrade, and out of the sunlight, turned out to be drinkable. If it is proven that the champagne was indeed produced before 1825, it would be considered the world's oldest champagne and cost at least half a million Swedish crowns [B][$68,000] per bottle.[/B] Finland's Yle radio reported that French experts failed to establish the precise age of the champagne bottles, saying only that they were not produced by any contemporary enterprise. Swedish wine experts earlier said that judging by the special cork design it could be of the world-famous Veuve Clicquot brand. The discovery has already sparked a row between Swedish diver Christian Ekstrom, who lifted and opened the first bottle, and members of the Aland Maritime Historical Society, who accused him of stealing data about the ship's location from them. Ekstrom denies the claims. The date of shipwreck still remains a mystery. Scientists suggest that it could be a Nordic sailing ship which sank in the early 19th century while sailing to the Gulf of Finland from Gdansk in Poland or Copenhagen in Denmark. The fate of the bottles is yet to be determined. According to local laws, objects older than a century are considered a relic and belong to Aland.[/QUOTE] [IMG]http://media.kidk.com/images/100831oldest_champagne.jpg[/IMG] They already brought some of them to the surface. I wish the guy who found them at least gets a nice reward as the bottles might be worth 4,7 million dollars. [URL="http://en.rian.ru/world/20100831/160415135.html"]Sauce[/URL] [IMG]http://yle.fi/ecepic/archive/00331/shampanja_ahvenanma_331012b.jpg[/IMG]

they should spill it all on the ground in a rap video

[quote]I wish the guy who found them at least gets a nice reward as the bottles might be worth 4,7 million dollars.[/quote]I'm not sure what's funnier, the fact that a bottle of champagne can be worth 4.7 million dollars, or the fact that somebody will actually spend 4.7 million dollars on a 800 ml bottle of champagne that's really not going to be that much better than any storebought bottle of champagne. You could feed the world on all the money spent on stupid bullshit. Hope it ends up in a museum or something, rather than a private collection, or worse yet getting opened. Oh, my mistake. 68,000 dollars a bottle, how could I miss that, that`s so cheap :v:

[QUOTE=pyrofiliac;24496343]they should spill it all on the ground in a rap video[/QUOTE] They would spill it on the ass of a black chick while nodding.

I thought it was wine that had the special quality to get better with time, isn't champagne like, always the same?

What a nice find.

I bet it tastes amazing.

[QUOTE=Steak;24496734]I bet it tastes like the shit.[/QUOTE] I bet you don't know how alcohol works.

[QUOTE=hypno-toad;24496434]I'm not sure what's funnier, the fact that a bottle of champagne can be worth 4.7 million dollars, or the fact that somebody will actually spend 4.7 million dollars on a 800 ml bottle of champagne that's really not going to be that much better than any storebought bottle of champagne. You could feed the world on all the money spent on stupid bullshit. Hope it ends up in a museum or something, rather than a private collection, or worse yet getting opened.[/QUOTE] $68,000 for one bottle, 4,7 million for all 200. $68,000 is still a lot of money for a bottle however.

[QUOTE=Egevened;24496678]I thought it was wine that had the special quality to get better with time, isn't champagne like, always the same?[/QUOTE] champagne is wine bro

[QUOTE=rnate;24496764]I bet you don't know how alcohol works.[/QUOTE] Bad reading or box. I said I bet it tasted good.

[QUOTE=Egevened;24496678]I thought it was wine that had the special quality to get better with time, isn't champagne like, always the same?[/QUOTE] Pretty much every alcoholic drink gets better over age bro.

[QUOTE=Steak;24496734]I bet it tastes like the shit.[/QUOTE] If I'm not mistaken, they opened a bottle and took a zip of it. And it was delicious.

[QUOTE=mike;24496794]champagne is wine bro[/QUOTE] good to know I'm sticking with vodka :geno:

Laugh if it was horrible.

[QUOTE=Kazumi;24496991]If I'm not mistaken, they opened a bottle and took a zip of it. And it was delicious.[/QUOTE] Saying something, 'is the shit' means it is very amazing if I am correct. I edited my post to state what I really mean so no one else is confused.

[QUOTE=Egevened;24496678]I thought it was wine that had the special quality to get better with time, isn't champagne like, always the same?[/QUOTE] actually they both start to taste better with age. they both contain grape skins and sugar, which turns into alcohol. The longer they age, the better they taste. All champagne is, is sparkling white wine. It's only called champagne if it's from France. [editline]08:53PM[/editline] [QUOTE=Egevened;24497089]good to know I'm sticking with vodka :geno:[/QUOTE] that too

"*slip*FUCK ME*break*" :smithicide:

still not as good as moet or dom p

Would love to drink a glass of that

Man I want to try it, but thats quite a lot of bones for one sip.

Oh fuck yes do want.

I guess it is better where it is wetter..?

It must be a cham[B]pain[/B] to get them. :downsrim:

[QUOTE=hypno-toad;24496434]I'm not sure what's funnier, the fact that a bottle of champagne can be worth 4.7 million dollars, or the fact that somebody will actually spend 4.7 million dollars on a 800 ml bottle of champagne that's really not going to be that much better than any storebought bottle of champagne. You could feed the world on all the money spent on stupid bullshit. Hope it ends up in a museum or something, rather than a private collection, or worse yet getting opened.[/QUOTE] See these 2,000-year-old Roman arrowheads? I'm gonna throw 'em out! Why? They're junk! You can't even kill a deer with 'em these days!

I thought things only got better with age if their in wooden barrels.

[QUOTE=Novistador;24503377]I thought things only got better with age if their in wooden barrels.[/QUOTE] stuff your girlfriend in one just to be sure

[QUOTE=Archy;24503613]stuff your girlfriend in one just to be sure[/QUOTE] That was literally the worst joke I have ever heard in my entire life. EDIT: Also I have no girlfriend :(

[QUOTE=Novistador;24503377]I thought things only got better with age if their in wooden barrels.[/QUOTE] That depends on the drink, wine can age in bottle. Drinks that absorb their flavor from the wood such as scotch and bourbon only age in barrel.

The prices for the bottles sure are a [b]cham[/b]!