tiny bubbles and perfect of French champagne with a hint of tobacco, but also of white fruits. They were, in all probability ', get on the table spread of Tsar Peter the Great, courtesy of Louis XVI of France, and instead ended up in the bottom of the Baltic Sea off the Aaland Islands. Until a few days ago when a group of divers came across the wreckage contained the precious nectar. One of the divers has brought to light one of the thirty bottles, just to try to identify the ship sank and came across a treasure. The champagne taste "absolutely fabulous" as he testified oenologist, who had the rare privilege to taste it, could become the oldest so far discovered drinkable champagne. This should be a Veuve Clicot produced in the years since 1780, although the research has just begun to identify the sensational charge, since the bottles are unlabeled. But bears the engraved symbol of a cork anchor and this makes the prevailing 98%, the thesis that it is Veuve Clicquot. Or so say the producers of Moet Chandon, respondents to draw the identikit of the precious liquid was discovered at a depth of 55 meters to the bottom of the sea that separates Finland from Sweden.
E 'was precisely the absence of light combined with low temperatures of the sea to ensure that the champagne could get to today with its features intact. The head of the team of divers who made the discovery Christian Ekstrom, also ventures a reconstruction on the date of production of champagne. Veuve Clicquot, she explains, began its production of champagne in 1772 and the first years were not available before 1782. Then came the French Revolution of 1788-1789, which has paralyzed the production of the aristocratic drink. Then the bottles should have been produced in this period.
The discovery could wipe out the champagne yet drinkable record held previously by a British wine expert, who is a jealous guardian of Perrier Jouet, vintage 1825. The wine maker who has tasted the champagne of the abyss, she Grussner Cromwell Morgan, is absolutely thrilled. He confesses that he still in the fridge with a glass of this dark nectar of gold, the bouquet "amazing, intense, very sweet, while retaining its acidity. "I'm going to see him every five minutes because I still can not believe it," says the winemaker that each bottle could be sold at auction for approximately 53,000 €. But as the champagne king of France could also be worth millions of euro, to the delight of the directors of the Aaland Islands, an autonomous region of Finland.
on ANSA.it
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