The top 10 most expensive champagnes

It took a week, but luckily it's Friday again, so tonight we can enjoy some champagne again. Or something else is also fine. But champagne gives us the least hangover, so that's why I'm a supporter of this drink. Moreover, it's also good for our memory, so I see only advantages to have a few glasses tonight.

If you are also a champagne lover and want to go all out tonight, then I have a list for you with 10 of the most expensive champagnes available.

10. Blanc de Noir, Bollinger Vieilles Vignes Françaises

Price: €487.50

Year: 1997

You might recognize this champagne from the James Bond movies. British connoisseurs also call this champagne ‘Bolly’, so you immediately know what you can say very nonchalantly when you order a bottle.

9. Krug Clos Du Mesnil

Price: €562.50

Year: 1995

This is a sign, because this champagne comes from my birth year. I really should get one of these. Le Mesnil is a wine region of only two hectares, where only Chardonnay grapes grow specifically for this champagne.

8. Dom Pérignon

Price: €1,474

Year: 1966

Normally, Dom Pérignon is already quite pricey, but this is apparently a very special good year. Not long ago, a whole collection from this year was discovered in a Belgian wine cellar, and since then they have been sold for this soft price. It seems that no one dares to open it, so it's still a question of whether it's even drinkable.

7. Krug Clos d’Ambonnay

Price: €2,625

Year: 1995

Again my birth year with this champagne from Krug, I will be in trouble if I want to buy this one too. The area of Clos d’Ambonnay is even smaller than that of Clos Du Mesnil, namely 0.685 hectares. Krug only released this champagne in 2008, after it had sufficiently matured in the wine cellar.

6. Perrier-Jouët Belle Époque

Price: €4,166

Year: 2008

Perrier-Jouët is normally not an extremely expensive champagne, think about €45 per bottle, but these bottles come with a special arrangement. If you want to acquire this bottle, you travel to Epernay to add a personally tailored liqueur to the bottle together with the boss of Perrier-Jouët. So consider it a customized champagne, which naturally costs a bit extra.

5. Cristal Brut ‘Methusalem’

Price: €13,219

Year: 1990

‘Methusalem’ is the size of a wine bottle, in this case a modest six liters. In 1995, this bottle was auctioned for over €13,000. Cristal is already one of the most expensive champagne brands in the world, but this special edition including a gold label is just a bit more valuable.

4. Krug

Price: €15,750

Year: 1928

This is the most expensive champagne from Krug ever sold. It is quite an elderly variant, but a tasting note from 1999 mentioned that the champagne still tasted perfect then. So who knows, it might still be a delightful bubble, although I find it a bit tricky, such an old champagne of 94 years.

3. Dom Perignon ‘White Gold Jeroboam’

Price: €30,000

Year: 1995

Here we go again with my year, this all feels very good. A ‘Jeroboam’ is a wine bottle of three liters. This so-called white gold bottle fetched a new owner at an auction for €30,000. No idea if it's justified that so much was paid, but hopefully the owner is proud.

2. Armand de Brignac ‘Midas’

Price: €120,000

Year: 2012

We suddenly shoot over a hundred thousand, but then you get something. This gigantic 30-liter bottle was purchased in 2012 for €120,000 in a nightclub. The new owner drank a total of €204,000 that evening with his guests, including this 45-kilogram beauty. Who was crazy enough to pay this amount? You would think an old man, but nothing could be further from the truth: the 23-year-old currency trader Alex Hope apparently thought his money should roll. I can't blame him, you only live once.

1. Heidsieck Diamant Bleu

Price: €206,250

Year: 1907

This bottle brings a piece of history with it. In 1916, a boat was sunk in the Gulf of Finland by a German submarine. On the sunken boat was a stock of bottles of Heidsieck Diamant Bleu from 1907. Later, in 1998, the boat was found again, and what turned out? The champagne bottles had simply survived underwater. Years later, they were auctioned for over two hundred thousand each. You probably understand now why this is the most expensive champagne in the world.

Source: WijnSpijs