My husband was given a bottle of pink champagne 19 years ago. It's a Perrier-Jouet any ideas of its worth?!
Answers: Or maybe where we could find out.
I have just checked www.bbr.com the website of Berry Brothers and they gave 1988 an 8/10 and ready for drinking. I take it with the nice bottle, it has the art nouveau flowers and if it is, it will be the Belle Epoque Rose.
Depending upon storage, it should be okay, but if you have had to move it in and out of differing environments, it may not be worth it.
Be honest with yourselves, if it has been moved about and/ or kept in a warm climate, it may be over the hill, and don't ruin your taste buds.
Keep the bottle though
It will be almost undrinkable now. Champagne does not keep. Even certified vintage champagne loses its sparkle quickly.
Drink it tonight - or pour it down the loo.
""The Champenois say that you should not keep Champagne for longer that it was cellared originally, so that means two years for a non-vintage, and three years for a vintage. "
"How much is my Champagne worth?
There is not such a great market in the re-sale of Champagne as there is with quality Bordeaux or Burgundy wines, although certain wines such as Dom Perignon and Cristal from top vintages attract the attention of collectors all over the world. A collector would be very keen to know the provenance of a wine, i.e. where it has been stored since it left the cellars in Champagne. If it has been on your mantelpiece for the last few years, forget trying to sell it!"
what a waste of champagne i wouldve drunk it by now i love champagne !!! google champagne dealers
Try this site http://www.nextdaychampagne.co.uk/ishop/...
Zilch.
A simple Google search of "wine auction" will list many auction houses.
The value of any wine is determined by the production of a vintage and how it was stored.
I would assume that your bottle was probably a vintage (otherwise, it would have a "NV" somewhere on the label).
Did you keep it in a cellar or temperature/humidity controlled environment?
These are things that the auction house will ask.
As for simply opening the bottle and enjoying it, the fact is most champagne is meant to be drunk within a few years of a vintage.
However, there are those people that enjoy the aged taste that some champagnes develop over time.
I opened up a vintage bottle of P&J recently - it was ten years old.
Tasted nice - a little like old cheese, but nice.
Well, seems like you have some good advice here.
The wine is porbably not worth much. Might as well chill it and drink it. I hope it is still drinkable. Next time, if you get some good wine like that and don't want it, send it to me!