World's Oldest Drinkable Champagne
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Divers in the Baltic Sea find what is thought to be the world's oldest drinkable champagne
On Tuesday, July 20, 2010, divers in the Baltic Sea found what is believed to be the oldest drinkable champagne in the world in a shipwreck whose nationality has not yet been determined, sunk near the Aland Islands, between Sweden and Finland. The divers were so excited that they tasted the sole bottle they had brought up so far before they even returned to shore.
"It was fantastic ... it had a very sweet taste, you could taste oak and it had a very strong tobacco smell. And there were very small bubbles," said Swedish diving instructor, Christian Ekstrom, adding that the 30 or so bottles that are aboard the sunken vessel are believed to be Veuve Clicquot Champagne dating from between 1782 and 1788 which were probably part of a cargo headed to Russia.
"We brought up the bottle to be able to establish how old the wreck was," he said, adding that they did not know it was Champagne, though they believed that it was wine or some other kind of drink.
Ekstrom said the divers were overjoyed when they popped the cork on their boat after hauling the bubbly from a depth of 200 feet. "It tasted fantastic. It was a very sweet champagne, with a tobacco taste and oak," he commented.
The oldest vintage of Champagne that had been tasted in modern times before this find, was the Perrier-Jouet 1825 opened for 12 of the world's top wine tasters in 2009.
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