When it comes to expensive Champagne, these bottles are at the top of the list, from shipwreck discoveries to gold-plated giants.
Champagne may be a very profitable investment, with demand skyrocketing as the hospitality business reopens and people look for ways to celebrate. But how much should a good object cost, and does scarcity imply high quality? While we can only want to test the fizz on this list, some of the entries may leave you with the impression that many consumers have more money than reason (or taste).
List of 10 Most Expensive Champagne Bottles in the World?
1. 2017 Champagne Avenue Foch – £2.1m/US$2.5m
The newest addition on this list, and another developed by Shammi Shinh, takes first place. It holds the record not because it is brilliantly bejewelled or because the contents are beautiful, but because it includes an NFT of the Bored Mutant Ape located on the bottle. While most people may doubt the design’s aesthetic appeal, successful bidders Giovanni and Piero Buono regard it as a worthwhile crypto investment.
2. 2013 Taste of Diamonds – £1.2 million/US$1.8m
Then there’s having your name engraved into an 18-karat gold tag on a bottle with a 19-karat diamond embossed into a second 18-karat gold tag. Alexander Amoso upgraded the design by inventor Shammi Shinh using valuable materials. The wine inside is from the Chapuy family estate and is created from Grand Cru grapes, as you’d expect from something that costs the same as a new Ferrari Monza.
3. 1907 Heidsieck – £232,000/US$275,000
The Baltic seabed appears to be better supplied than most people’s cellars, and it also happens to be a very ideal habitat for conserving wine. These bottles were en route to the Romanovs in 1916, but the Jönköping was sunk by a U-boat, taking the Champagne cargo with it. Divers rescued the wreck in the late 1990s, a little too late for the Russian royal family. The Ritz-Carlton in Moscow is said to sell a bottle for more than a quarter of a million dollars; we can only imagine what Lenin would think of it.
4. NV Armand de Brignac Brut Gold Midas – £43,500/US$51,600
The largest entry on this list, both in terms of quantity and price, is an intimidating 30 litres (40 ordinary bottles). Of course, with a producer like Jay-Z and an owner like Jay-Z, it’s a wine you buy to show what you’ve got. It’s safe to say that’s not an everyday beverage, but it could be the ace under your sleeve when you truly want to wow. If you’re looking to impress on a tighter budget, Selfridges has a more manageable model for £300.
5. 1874 Perrier-Jouët – £42,800/US$50,735
The current Christie’s record holder for the highest price paid for a bottle of Champagne, the 1874, broke the auction house’s records in 1888 and kept it until 1967 before returning generations later to retake the title. Despite being indelibly linked with Perrier-Jout, this bottle is so old that art nouveau was so fresh that it had yet to fully develop. This specific example is created from Chardonnay that Charles Perrier himself mixed. The wine was also accompanied by a personalised VIP experience at Maison Belle Epoque in Épernay.
6. 1820 Juglar Cuvée – £36,700/US$43,500
7. 1841 Veuve Clicquot – £28,700/US$34,000
8. 1937 Krug Collection Magnum – £26,123/US$31,000
9. 1998 Dom Pérignon Rosé Jeroboam: David Lynch edition – £7,030/US$8,333
10. 1990 Louis Roederer Cristal Brut Millesime Cuvée Methuselah – £5,800/US$6,875
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