The most expensive champagne. Who will win in the competition of high prices?

For a man of the usual, as they say, average, champagne is a symbol of a holiday. New Year, wedding or anniversary rarely do without this golden, sparkling drink. Real connoisseurs and gourmets consider sparkling wine one of the main attributes of luxury life. What do you think, how much can the most expensive champagne in the world cost? Let's try to find out the exact figures, but for this we recall some facts.

In the summer of this year, an unusual auction was held on the Alands. Lots in it were bottles of champagne, found in the Baltic Sea among the wreckage of a wreck a couple of years ago. The "catch" of the Swedish divers was rich enough: four bottles of beer and one hundred and forty-five with champagne brand Juglar. 79 bottles were fit. The brand La Veuve Clicquot Ponsardin Heidseick, better known as Charlie Champagne, ceased its existence as far back as the early nineteenth century. The cost of each bottle organizers estimated at 100 thousand dollars. In total, there are eleven such bottles left, the rest were sold from auction auctions a year ago.

However, this is not the most expensive champagne in the history of trading. A bottle of Piper Heidsieck produced in 1907 was sold for 275 thousand dollars.

The French brand Louis Vuitton to Russian women of fashion is more famous for the production of leather accessories. However, as it turned out, the brand Louis Vuitton is not limited to this. In 2008, champagne sold under this brand was sold at auction in Hong Kong. A drink in a vintage bottle of design work cost the buyer $ 21,000. The year of production of champagne is 1928th.

Undoubtedly, when it comes to drinks, whose ages range from a few dozen to several hundred years, collectors are ready to shell out any money, only to get a bottle of "a wonderful elixir" in their wine cellar. But, it turns out, expensive champagne is not necessarily a rarity. Remember Cristall or Dom Perignon, finally Armand de Brignac. However, this is not the limit. The record price was beaten by the firm Pernod Ricard, which in 2009 released the most expensive champagne in a collection of dozens of bottles. Each of them costs about 4166 euros. The collection of Perrier-Jouet champagne was released in a limited edition. Sell sparkling was planned only in the US, Japan, Britain, Russia and France.
Drink from Pernod Ricard received the honorary title of "the most expensive champagne" and took an honorable place in the list of similar products.

Now back to the classics. For a long time Dom Perignon kept the palm in the cost of its products. At all times this champagne was rightfully considered the most refined and aristocratic, as it was produced from elite varieties of grapes harvested in the years of the best harvest. At the pre-New Year auction, the most expensive champagne from Dom Perignon was sold at a price of 40 thousand dollars per bottle with a volume of three liters.

Champagne Cristal Brut release in 1990 at the New York auction Sotheby's went "with a hammer" for $ 17625. The wine was produced in France, poured into exclusive six-liter bottles, decorated with gold-plated labels. It should be noted that the cost of tare significantly increased the price of the drink. However, Cristal is not the only manufacturer that relies on design. Than just do not decorate bottles for champagne today. In the course are diamonds, precious metals, expensive varieties of crystal.

A curious fact is that even during periods of deep economic crisis, rich buyers are not stopping to take an interest in expensive, exquisite wines. Apparently, the highest price for a bottle of champagne has not yet been named and the competition among producers continues. While bubbles sparkling in a high glass remain a symbol of that life has taken place, the demand for this drink will not fall. Well, we need only be amazed at the breadth of their scope.