World's oldest champagne sells for $156 000

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June 11, 2012

Eleven bottles of some of the world’s oldest champagne sold for more than 156,000 US-dollar at an auction in Finland.

The bottles are part of a batch of around 150 champagne bottles divers stumbled upon last July in a two-masted schooner which had run aground sometime between 1825 and 1830.

Six bottles were Juglar, a house that disappeared in 1829, four were Veuve Clicquot and one was Heidsieck, The Swedish Wire reported.

The sellers were watching after a $37,720 a bottle record set in the last sale, though the Paris-based auction house of Artcurial Briest-Poulain-F.Tajan had placed an estimate of just $12,000 each.

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