170 year old champagne - a study

Jeff Grossman

Jeff Grossman
You may recall that a cache of champagne bottles were pulled up from a shipwreck in the Baltic a few years ago. A few bottles were even auctioned.

Well, here's the resulting chemical analysis and what it says about champagne-making techniques back then: click.

(I was inspired to read this because a few days ago someone else pulled up a stash of 50 cases of De Haartman cognac and 15 cases of Benedictine that had been sunk in the Baltic during WWI.)
 
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