In July of last year we posted about the discovery of 30 bottles of champagne thought to pre-date the French Revolution in a wreck on the Baltic seabed.  In November, wine experts tasted the “world’s oldest champagne” which was judged to be quite palatable.  Recently it was announced that two bottles of 200-year old champagne will be auctioned off in June.

‘World’s oldest champagne’ to be sold at June auction

Finland’s autonomous province of Aaland “has decided that two bottles will be sold at an exclusive champagne auction held in (the capital) Mariehamn on June 3, 2011,” it said a statement.

One of the auctioned bottles will be from the house of Veuve-Clicquot and the other from the now extinct house of Juglar.

They 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.

Salvaging of bottles — preserved in ideal conditions at the bottom of the Baltic Sea — began in August and authorities identified the bottles as the world’s oldest Juglar and Veuve Clicquot brands.

In January, they announced Heidsieck champagne bottles were also in the lot.

“These bottles are unparalleled in the market. You can only speculate on what the end price will be, but it will probably be at record levels,” champagne expert Richard Juhlin said in the statement.

In November, when the champagne was uncorked for the world’s media and wine experts to taste, Juhlin told AFP that either bottle could fetch 100,000 euros ($144,925).

Thanks to Irwin Bryan for the passing the news along.