Shipwrecked Champagne goes on sale

A bottle of 100-year-old Champagne that was salvaged from the wreck of the Jönköping has come up for sale in London.

The bottle of 1907 Heidsieck Monopole ‘Goût Américan’ is from a shipment of Champagne salvaged from the bottom of the Baltic in the late 1990s.

Another bottle of Goût Américan from the same wreck that belonged to Pierre Bergé was recently sold in Paris for €6,010.

This bottle, consigned by a Scandinavian collector, is part of Bonhams’ London sale on 14 April with an estimate of £1,000 to £1,500.

News of the sale and some of its highlights have previously been covered by the drinks business here.

The Jönköping was a Swedish schooner sunk off the Finnish coast by a German U-boat in 1916.

She had been carrying war material and a shipment of Champagne and Cognac to Russia when she was intercepted.

The full story of the ship, her sinking and the Champagne she carried can be read here.