Charles and Diana’s rare wedding champagne to be auctioned
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The Dom Perignon Vintage champagne bottles were created and labelled to mark the British royal wedding in 1981.
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DENMARK – One of 12 bottles of champagne from the wedding of King Charles III – who was then Prince of Wales – and Princess Diana will go under the hammer in December in Denmark.
The bottles were created and labelled to mark the British royal wedding watched by hundreds of millions around the world in 1981.
“Only 12 magnum bottles were made, and this is one of them,” wine expert at Bruun Rasmussen auction house Thomas Rosendahl Andersen told AFP.
The magnum of 1961 Dom Perignon Vintage could fetch between 500,000 Danish kroner (S$101,000) and 600,000 Danish kroner at the Dec 11 auction in a Copenhagen suburb, the auction house said.
Mr Rosendahl said the bottle would appeal to both wine enthusiasts and collectors of royal memorabilia.
“You can absolutely drink it. Every bottle of wine we sell at auction is examined and inspected,” said Mr Rosendahl.
“For something like this, we check many different things, including shining light through the bottle to ensure that the contents, the wine itself, have a very nice and clear colour, and are not brown and cloudy.”
The current owner of the magnum, a collector who does not want his identity to be made public, obtained the bottle from a London dealer.
Champagne from the wedding has not always proved a hit with collectors – a magnum failed to find a buyer at a British auction in 2004. However, four years later, another fetched around US$12,000 (S$15,500). AFP
