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World’s Oldest Champagne Tastes Sweet After 200-Year Shipwreck

The world’s oldest Champagne has been at the bottom of the sea for almost 200 years. It still tastes pretty good.

Two bottles were cracked open today that were discovered in July in a shipwreck, 50 meters (54.7 yards) below the surface, in the waters south of Aaland, a Finnish-controlled archipelago of 6,500 islands in the Baltic sea.