Seabed champagne - at a price


Two hundred bottles of champagne stuck on the seabed for more than 80 years are being sold at an exclusive Russian hotel - for £156,000 a bottle.

The 1907 vintage bubbly had been sent to the Russian royal family in 1916 from the Heidsieck vineyard but the ship carrying them sank off the Finnish coast.

The wreck was only discovered in 1997 when divers found the undamaged bottles which were later bought by the Carlton Ritz Hotel in Moscow.

The hotel is putting them on their wine list for 700,000 rubles a pop as the ultimate show-off tipple for billionaire businessmen.

The Carlton Ritz is one of the ten most expensive hotels in the world where a room costs more than £10,000 per night, according to Russian newspaper Komersant.





I wonder how much they would pay for a 3 year old bottle of Chang beer?