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Nearly 200-year-old bottle of champagne was auctioned for a record-setting 30,000 Euros.

04 June,2011 06:23 pm

Nearly 200-year-old bottle of champagne which is also the worlds oldest champagne was auctioned for a record-setting 30,000 Euros. It was found in a shipwreck at the bottom of the Baltic Sea.Veuve Clicquot was part of the booty from a shipwreck dating between 1825 and 1830. The price is a new record for champagne auction; the previous record was set in 2008, when a bottle of 1959 Dom Perignon Rose sold for 27,600 Euros. The record-setting price was a victory for the province of Aaland, which is hoping to turn the champagne auction into an annual event to boost its visibility as a tourist and luxury destination.A bottle of champagne from the now-extinct house of Juglar sold for 24,000 Euros in the same auction. The auction event included the sale of more than 40 other exclusive bottles from the cellars of Veuve Clicquot, each fetching more than 1,000 Euros.