Posted on 06/23/2011 12:30:19 AM PDT by nickcarraway
Mystery Solved: The Most Expensive Champagne in the World Sold in an Auction was Purchased by Buyan, Singapore's Premier Russian Restaurant
History was made when Buyan Russian Haute Cuisine & Caviar Bar located in the Republic of Singapore, won the world’s most expensive Champagne in a fierce bidding war. Buyan, which offers both inexpensive traditional Russian fare as well as Russian haute cuisine meant for the Tsars, has paid €30,000 (SGD43,630) for a bottle of Veuve Clicquot, which is believed to be 170 years old.
Singapore (PRWEB) June 17, 2011
History was made when Buyan Russian Haute Cuisine & Caviar Bar located in the Republic of Singapore, won the world’s most expensive Champagne in a fierce bidding war. Buyan, which offers both inexpensive traditional Russian fare as well as Russian haute cuisine meant for the Tsars, has paid €30,000 (SGD43,630) for a bottle of Veuve Clicquot, which is believed to be 170 years old.
It has also paid €24,000 for the Juglar, a now-defunct house of champagne that used to be one of the favourites of Napoleon I. He awarded a gold medal to the House of Juglar in 1810, 19 years before the estate was bought over by Jacquesson.
The bottles, which were sold in an exclusive auction of the two best bottles tasted from the wreckage, by premier wine auction house Acker Merrall & Condit. They were part of a treasure of 145 wine bottles found by divers last year in a 19th century shipwreck off the Åland Islands, part of the autonomous Åland region in Finland. It is believed that the ship was bound for St. Petersburg, Russia and the precious cargo was meant for the Russian Tsar, Nicholas I.
These two bottles will be added to Buyan’s existing collection of seven bottles of 1907 Charles Heidsieck & Monopole Champagnes found in another shipwreck in the Baltic Sea. These were part of a Swedish cargo sunk by a German U-boat during World War I in 1916. These bottles were also on their way to the court of the last Tsar Nicholas II, great grandson of Nicholas I.
Hmph!
I had a bottle Vueve Cligot, something or other, that was from somewhere around 1900.
I don’t recall the details. We were drunk and laughing our buttocks off.
Tasted like champagne though...
That would be a little over $48,000.
That would be a little over $48,000.
The 1907 Heidsieck sold for over $275,000 a bottle, making it by far the most expensive champagne the world has ever seen.
Some people have more money than sense.
I dated a Russian and she tortured me with Russian cuisine all the time. Words cannot describe the hell she unleashed on me. Their food is a weapon of mass destruction.
Note: Welch’s grape juice comes in both red and white.
Those with a passion for fish eggs are reminded that chicken eggs are only a few bucks a dozen, and are great fried, scrambled, shirred, and poached.
Ah gots muh styrofoam cup ri-chere.
Pop open that sucker....
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