The Attraction of The Most Expensive Champagne

If you hold a toast using a glass of expensive champagne on New Year's, keep in mind no matter what kind of money you could have used to acquire it, there are champagnes which are hundreds, or even thousands of times more costly.

Folks that own these expensive champagnes prefer to examine the bottles as if we were looking at pieces in a museum rather than opening them, and often find themselves selling them at auctions as opposed to savoring their aromatic liquid, states Forbes magazine, which stresses that champagne has exceeded all expectations of its collectors, being on a expanding tendency even in times of economic downturn.

"People have a tendency to drink champagne as soon as they acquire it." states Justin Gibbs, overseer of the London International Vintners Exchange, an electronic exchange for fine wine. Due to this fact, a good champagne can be exceptional within a few years after it was put on the market.

Even though the top wine drinks of Bordeaux are kept to rest for 20 years before being offered on sale, champagne is put on the shelves quickly after production - and this is when it is also usually drunk.In addition, "champagne is drunk in all casinos of the world, on Russian oligarchs yachts and by footballers' girlfriends or wives, therefore there is an element of richness in this" claimed Gibbs. Forbes has created a top with the most expensive champagne in the world, which have seen amazing price increases in periods of recession.

The most expensive champagne in the world has been estimated at 2.75 million dollars. Or to be more exact, the most expensive bottle of champagne.

This invention of designer Leon Verres, nine-liter bottle (salmanzar) is decorated with diamonds as well as being "dressed" in a Russian "Shapka". The champagne shall be sold at a public auction and the capital raised from the selling shall be donated for social causes.