Now This Is An Unusual Wine Storage Solution

The team here at Weald Refrigeration found this interesting article and would like to share it with you

163 bottles of 170-year-old champagne were hauled up from the bottom of the Baltic Sea in 2010.

The expert’s now have chemical confirmation that the wine had aged well, but the mystery over how it got there is even murkier.

When the 163 bottles were recovered from 50 metres beneath the waves, seals on the corks showed that the wine had come from champagne houses Veuve Clicquot, Ponsardin, Heidsieck and Juglar (renamed Jacquesson & Fils in 1829).

Madame Clicquot Ponsardin

They were estimated to be between 170 and 180 years old.

Three of the Veuve Clicquot bottles were tasted by oenologists – on first opening they described the champagne as “sometimes cheesy”, with “animal notes” and elements of “wet hair”.

Swirling the champagne around in a glass to oxygenate it softened the flavours, which were then deemed to be grilled, spicy, smoky and leathery with fruity and floral notes

The conditions that the bottles were preserved in – complete darkness and a constant temperature between 2 ºC and 4 ºC – were ideal for wine ageing,

Now that’s what we call an unusual way to store your wine.