A risky opportunity for boozehounds out for a major charge.
Hitler’s champagne fetches £1,400
A bottle of champagne believed to have been taken from Hitler’s wine cellar by an allied soldier has been sold at auction in Dorset for £1,400.
The bottle of 1937 Moet and Chandon went under the hammer at Charterhouse auctioneers in Sherborne and was bought by a Swedish television company.
But champagne does not age well and the tipple is unlikely to be drinkable.
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“There was a rumour that some of the bottles of champagne had been poisoned by injecting through the cork which might be why the soldier never actually drank it.
“Champagne doesn’t particularly age well anyway, but in light of that information I would say it’s extremely unlikely that anyone would want to drink it anyway.”
Drinkable or not, the buyer has just got himself a boozehound magnet.
He keeps Moet and Chandon in a pretty cabinet.
“Let them eat cake,” he says, just like Marie Antoinette!