"CHAMPAGNE that spent 82 years on the ocean floor will surface at a swank dinner in Melbourne tomorrow night.
Eight bottles of Heidsieck & Co Monopole 1907 vintage, a sweeter style known as Gout Americain, will be sipped and admired at a sold-out dinner for 88 guests at Crown's Number 8 restaurant.
That the wine survived at all is extraordinary. On November 3, 1916, about 3000 bottles of the champagne, along with 17 barrels of burgundy and 21 barrels of cognac, were on a Swedish schooner, the Jonkoping, heading for Finland where, the cargo was destined for the thirsty Russian Imperial Army in St Petersburg"I hope its not corked!
The story from the Age here
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I Missed Creg... he brought a glimmer of hope into my life - I wasn't alone!
Speaking gibberish that is!
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