Topic ID #8133 - posted 7/17/2010 6:54 AM
Jennifer Palmer
Webmaster
Divers find what is thought to be the world's oldest drinkable champagne
Jennifer Palmer
Webmaster
A group of divers exploring a shipwreck in the Baltic Sea have found bottles containing what is thought to be the oldest drinkable champagne in the world, made in the late 18th century.
"I picked up one champagne bottle just so we could find the age of the wreck, because we didn't find any name or any details that would have told us the name of the ship," diver Christian Ekstrom from Aland said Saturday.
Ekstrom and his Swedish diving colleagues opened the bottle and tasted the contents.
"It was fantastic... it had a very sweet taste, you could taste oak and it had a very strong tobacco smell. And there were very small bubbles," he said.
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"I picked up one champagne bottle just so we could find the age of the wreck, because we didn't find any name or any details that would have told us the name of the ship," diver Christian Ekstrom from Aland said Saturday.
Ekstrom and his Swedish diving colleagues opened the bottle and tasted the contents.
"It was fantastic... it had a very sweet taste, you could taste oak and it had a very strong tobacco smell. And there were very small bubbles," he said.
Read the rest of the article here.
Post ID#17896 - replied 7/20/2010 11:38 AM
FireArch
Moderator
Um, isn't that a bit like Schliemann taking Agamemnon's gold to decorate his wife?
Post ID#17904 - replied 7/21/2010 12:24 AM
Apollonius
We discovered...an empty bottle!
*hic*
*hic*
Post ID#17908 - replied 7/21/2010 10:41 AM
FireArch
Moderator
applause....
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