The "priceless" 1893 bottle of Veuve Clicquot that had been locked away in Scottish Torosay Castle, Isle of Mull, for 115 years. In July of 2008, owner Chris James made the find after employing a specialist locksmith to cut a key and open an antique piece of furniture in the Scottish residence of ...
Regarded as the oldest drinkable wine on Earth, the 1825 Perrier-Jouët champagne only has two remaining bottles left in the world. Since the earlier part of the 19th Century, the prestigious champagne house has saved and stored bottles of wine from its greatest vintages seventy feet underground at ...
In July 2010 in the Baltic Sea at a depth of 55 meters, a group of Swedish divers discovered a collection of 168 bottles of champagne on a shipwreck 55 meters below the surface. The exact age of the champagne could not be determined due to extensive label damage, but many experts agreed that the ...
Heidsieck & Co Monopole was founded in 1875 by Florens-Louis Heidsieck and is now owned by Vranken in Epernay. The non vintage Monopole Blue is the popular Champagne blend that includes a Blue Top Premier Crus, an Extra Dry, and a Gold Top Millesime 2000. The Vranken company also boast the ...
The exquisite 1928 vintage Krug is regarded as "one of the greatest champagnes ever made" by Serena Sutcliffe - Head of Sotheby's Wine Department. In 2009, a bottle of 75cl wine was taken from the "Krug Collection" (the Krug family's ultimate library of wines) and auctioned off in Hong Kong for ...
For many wine lovers, Cristal is the most opulent prestige cuvée. In 2005, a bottle of Methuselah (8 times larger than standard size) 1990 Cristal Brut Millenum cuvée was sold at Chrisites in New York for $18,800. The most widely accepted theory over the Champagne's origin rests with the paranoia ...
This particular brand of Champagne offered an experience to its purchasers like no other witnessed in history. One hundred very wealthy clients from across the globe were invited to spend the day at Perrier-Jouët's headquarter's, the Maison Belle Époque, to create their very own personal cuvée and ...
Unveiled in 2008 by Krug, this extraordinary Ambonnay cuvée is an exception to Krug’s unique and traditional style of champagne cuvées because it is produced from a single grape variety, a single year and a single vineyard. Although it was preceded by the 1979 Clos du Mesnil, which is of a similar ...
