Would You Save It For An Investment,

or with Christmas just around the corner drink it for a toast?

assuming you could afford the £70,000 a bottle price tag? the wine was raised by divers in July near the Aland Islands, between Sweden and Finland, a total of 168 bottles were raised in the salvage operation, officials of the semi autonomous Finnish archipelago told reporters on Wednesday,

the bottles were believed to be from the 1780s but experts later dated the champagne to the early 19th century, they identified some bottles as Veuve Clicquot after discovering the corks matched their branding the exact years have not been established, the champagne - of the brands Veuve Clicquot and the now defunct Juglar French champagne house Perrier-Jouet, a subsidiary of Pernod Ricard, has earlier stated that their vintage from 1825 is the oldest recorded champagne still in existence, an archaeologist wearing white gloves presented one bottle of Juglar and another of Veuve Clicquot to expert Richard Juhlin, who sampled both in front of scores of journalists,

he initially described the champagne as "great" and "wonderful" before adding, 'I think what strikes you the most is that it's such an intense aroma, it's so different from anything you've tasted before,'

Francois Hautekeur, of Veuve Clicquot's wine making team, described the champagne as 'a toasted, zesty nose with hints of coffee, and a very agreeable taste with accents of flowers and lime-tree.' Juhlin found it Chardonnay-like, 'surprisingly for me the Veuve Clicquot has a lot of green notes,' he said. 'among the strongest are linden blossoms and lime peels,' well that settles it then I will have a case!