An accent of mushrooms merged with sweet notes of honey in a sampling Wednesday of what's been billed as the world's oldest champagne, salvaged from a shipwreck in the Baltic Sea.
— From Hints of yeast, honey; shipwrecked bubbly uncorked at Comcast News. Many thanks to Emily for the link!
$70,000 per bottle!
My perfume habit seems like its free. 😉
Almost.
Very nearly 😉
would you have drunk some? Not me….it’d be my luck that it’d have gone bad and I’d get sick….what’d the writer say? that it was cloudy or murky or something? yeah, I’d sniff but no drinky.
Well, I would not have taken the first sip!
thou art braver than I. 😉
I’d imagine it’s pretty cold and dark at the bottom of the Baltic…
Talk about having more money than sense [link removed, please see comment policy]
I read about this in the Swedish papers yesterday – sounds very interesting, I would definitely try it if I had the chance.