3. Shipwrecked 1907 Heidsieck – £163,000 ($275,000)
On the third place is the world’s most expensive Champagne.
In 1998, two thousand bottles of Champagne were salvaged from a ship, originally destined Imperial Court of Tsar Nicholas II of Russia, which had been torpedoed by a German sub during World War I.
They had commissioned a Swedish freighter to deliver wine and the 1907 Heidsieck Champagne, before it was struck by a German submarine in 1916.
Its cargo remained at the bottom of the sea for some 80 years before it was salvaged off the coast of Finland in 1998.
Since then the bottles have been sold at various auctions around the world for their historic value selling for $275,000 each.
