If you prefer your bubbly sweet, crisp, 200 years old and salvaged from a 19th century shipwreck in the Baltic Sea, well then, you’re in luck! Acker Merrall & Condit of New York is putting two of 150 recovered bottles of champagne on auction in Finland in June. Obviously, if you like your whiskey in a can instead of a frosty crate found in Antarctica, you are not sophistimacated enough to pay $82,000 for this hot shit right here.
For the possessive champagne chugging demographic, Moet & Chandon offers MyMoet, the opportunity to customize bottles and magnums of bubbly with Swarovski crystals. “Previously only available to celebrities and VIPs,” the new website offers the entire internet “exclusive access” to its expensive bedazzled bottles, or “signature champagne couture” as they call it. |Luxury Launches|
With the pope headed to town and celebrations abound, there couldn’t be a better time to bid on extremely expensive vintage Champagne. They’re from the collection of real-estate investor Robert Rosania—who’s no stranger to spirited auctions—and the bubblies featured include Krug, Roederer, Cristal, Salon, Bollinger, Dom Perignon, Pol Roger, and Pommery. Some date as far back as the 1800′s. The auction takes place Friday, April 25th at the Cru restaurant on 5th Ave in NYC. Mr. Rosania’s collection includes 1,346 bottles, 303 magnums and 11 jeros of bubbly. Big-ticket bottles like Krug’s 1938 vintage and Dom Perignon from 1928 are expected to sell for between $7,000 and $12,000 a pop.
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