Most Expensive Champagne in the World

Written by: Administrator Filed Under: Fashion, Food, Luxury, World on December 26th, 2005

Champagne, a sparkling wine named after the Champagne region of France is the costliest wine to produce. To produce champagne there must be two fermentation processes, with the second step trapping carbon dioxide and making the bubbles. In most of Europe, the name “champagne” is legally protected meaning only the most expensive sparkling wine produced in the Champagne region of France can be marketed as champagne. In the United States and other areas, $3 bottles of wine are often labeled champagne.

People often drink Champagne as part of a celebration and when celebrating success many feel the need to show off. The most expensive champagnes are more about image than what is in the bottle.

Most expensive champagne - Cristal Brute 1990 Methuselah

Cristal Brut 1990 “Methuselah”
$17,625

This six-liter, gold-labeled bottle of Cristal Brut 1990, dubbed the Methuselah, was sold at a Sotheby’s auction in New York to an undisclosed buyer in 2005. At the time, Cristal was a favorite of the hip-hop crowd.

World’s most expensive champagne - Dom Perignon

Dom Perignon White Gold Jeroboam
$40,000

During the same year, a limited edition bottle of Dom Perignon became the most expensive champagne in the world. Sold in three-liter bottles, the Dom Perignon White Gold Jeroboam was sold to commemorate the New Year. Much of its price, however, is surely due to the white gold bottle from which the expensive wine takes its name.

World’s most expensive champagne - Perrier-Jouet

Pernod-Ricard Perrier-Jouet
$50,000

Each of the 100 sets contains twelve bottles of fine, expensive champagne. Marketed only to the ultra-rich, buyers will have the chance personalize their drinking experience by choosing the liqueur used in the champagne—and they’ll have to fly to Eastern France to do so. The sets are being sold to consumers in the United States, Britain, Japan, China, Russia, Switzerland and France. The price even includes a storage nest where the champagne may be allowed to age for up to eight months!

World's Most Expensive Champagne - 1907 Heidsieck

Shipwrecked 1907 Heidsieck
$275,000

These hundred year old bottles of Champagne from the Heidsieck vineyard in Champagne took over eighty years to reach their destination. Shipped to the Russian Imperial family in 1916, a shipwreck off the coast of Finland caused this champagne to be lost at sea until divers discovered over 200 bottles in 1997. Now they’re finally being sold—to wealthy guests at the Ritz-Carlton hotel in Moscow, at least. Of course, the wine’s extraordinary tale and incredible age are what makes it the world’s most expensive champagne.


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22 comments...What do you think?

  1. Posted by Lozzy and milly 14th September, 2006 at 3:41 am

    woo first comment we want 2 see a picture of the champagne or is it so expensive because its invisible??????? can we have a free tester :) plz send it to: 21 Duffy road New york send it quickly :)

  2. Posted by mamad 19th May, 2007 at 2:00 pm

    Dear Sir and Madam

    can you send me more information about the expansive wine. i would like to buy one

    thanks

    Mamad Torkeh

  3. Posted by Haley Marad 12th September, 2007 at 1:21 pm

    How much does the Cuvee Sir Winston Churchill cost ?

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  6. Posted by zaak 20th March, 2008 at 11:51 am

    im more into lambrinii myself! its a bit posh lyke! what about a bit of jacobs creeks! thats all fancy and that lyke

  7. Posted by ajay Kaushal 16th October, 2008 at 8:16 am

    I am a non drinker but as my taste i feel chables is best wine in the world and i would like to know more expencsive champagne in the world.

  8. Posted by rishiel 27th November, 2008 at 9:54 pm

    i think this famous wine make a lot of money

  9. Posted by Aaron Morrison 31st December, 2008 at 3:05 am

    Too unreasonable to even try to fathom.

  10. Posted by mary 15th February, 2009 at 7:14 am

    i wanna taste it…

  11. Posted by Bob 16th February, 2009 at 10:17 pm

    this is the worst stuff ever trust

  12. Posted by niko perugini 25th April, 2009 at 12:57 pm

    i have a bottle of 1949 piper heidsheck what is the value? also 1951 henkell ?

  13. Posted by Sir B 29th April, 2009 at 9:02 pm

    Try a nice bottle of Ace of Spade or maybe even Veuve Clicquot.

  14. Posted by John Stassel 23rd May, 2009 at 1:17 am

    I was at Tony Granims estate, in Tampa Bay, I think last year at his New Years eve party.. and he had two bottles of the Cristal Brut 1990 “Methuselah” It was out of this world…

  15. Posted by Hugo 18th June, 2009 at 10:15 am

    YOu can find also the Heidseick 1907 for 12,000€ in a hotel in northen greece called Danai. http://www.dbr.gr

  16. Posted by bamba 25th June, 2009 at 7:53 am

    I don’t think,i ever drink a drop of these wines.Due to so costly of these.If ever my fortune give a chance,i will never miss it…

  17. Posted by benice 14th July, 2009 at 3:22 am

    the oldest the more expensive…oh my goodness its 13.2 million for me..its cost a lot for me…huhuhu. i’d rather go shopping..

  18. Posted by Ikioda Francis 23rd August, 2009 at 5:07 pm

    Just Imagining myself buying just a bottle of Champagne for as Xpensive as that…Hmm…. Well, I might do that when I’ve made ARAB $$$

  19. Posted by William 24th November, 2009 at 9:20 am

    The most expensive bottle was one made by thomas jefferson, folks

  20. Posted by nick 3rd December, 2009 at 10:57 am

    tesco are doing 3 for £10 at the moment get ya sen down

  21. Posted by sushant 17th December, 2009 at 12:21 pm

    i hope that these costliest champagne are coming from montagne de la reims from champagne region in France, the grape u r using is one and only chardonnay and the character of taste is demi-sec, the atmospheric pressure will be 08-10 lbs. If i’m wrong then send me the information on these and if I’m correct then also convey me some information.

  22. Posted by Melissa 30th December, 2009 at 8:18 am

    You could do a lot better things with your money…feed starving children, pay teachers salaries, support food shelves….to name a few

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