World's oldest Heidsieck bottles found in shipwreck

World’s oldest Heidsieck bottles found in shipwreck [Best Of The Best 2011] #luxury

Champagne experts have discovered what are believed to be the oldest existing bottles of Heidsieck champagne, salvaged from a shipwreck in the waters south of Aaland, a Finnish-controlled archipelago of 6,500 islands in the Baltic sea. Divers stumbled across a cargo of around 150 champagne bottles last July in a two-masted schooner which had run aground sometime between 1825 and 1830. And by last November experts had already identified the world’s oldest Juglar and Veuve Clicquot brands among the bottles. “When re-corking the almost 200-year-old bottles a third brand has now been discovered,” Aaland authorities said in a statement. Four bottles have been identified as having come from the Heidsieck & Co Monopole house, which is now owned by Vranken Pommery Monopole. “In the 1800s and the beginning of the 1900s it was one of the leading champagne houses, and it was one of t...

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