Last July, we posted about Baltic Bubbly – ‘World’s oldest champagne’, bottles of champagne thought to pre-date the French Revolution found in a shipwreck on the Baltic seabed.  Recently there was a tasting of one of the bottles of the historic champagne in Mariehamn.  The champagne was judged to be quite palatable and is expected to fetch up to £40,000 a bottle at an upcoming public auction.

Bottles of beer were also found at the same shipwreck.  Last week, Finnish authorities said that they would allow one or several modern breweries to replicate the recipe of beer.

Shipwreck champagne could fetch £40,000 a bottle