ste Posted November 19, 2012 Share Posted November 19, 2012 After some advice (constructive please!) - I'm trying to find out if this is Attic find is worth anything, and if so who would buy it. Its a Moet & Chandon 1979 limited edition Isle of Man Millennium magnum. Still in wooden crate, stored the right way round. This is Magnum numer 597 (doesn't say how many out of). Some pics attached. Any advice appreciated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grianane Posted November 19, 2012 Share Posted November 19, 2012 can I taste it to see whether its worth paying for Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GD4ELI Posted November 19, 2012 Share Posted November 19, 2012 You'll be lucky if it's drinkable, if it is then 79 was not a bad year. A lot depends on how it was stored, temperature, light etc. If it's drinkable then it will taste different to a newer (younger) bottle. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slim Posted November 19, 2012 Share Posted November 19, 2012 I'd ask Crystals Auctions, I see they've sold a couple of these. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Albert Tatlock Posted November 19, 2012 Share Posted November 19, 2012 I'd say £1000 or more perhaps? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slim Posted November 19, 2012 Share Posted November 19, 2012 I'd say £1000 or more perhaps? Worth asking him what it sold for anyway,he might ask £900 but doesn't mean there's a buyer! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Albert Tatlock Posted November 19, 2012 Share Posted November 19, 2012 I'd say £1000 or more perhaps? Worth asking him what it sold for anyway,he might ask £900 but doesn't mean there's a buyer! That was a 2009 figure also. Like has been said, also depends how it was stored. With some attics, in the '3months winter, 9 months bad weather' extremes, of the Isle of Man, a couple of them would likely have sprung legs years ago and run away. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ste Posted November 19, 2012 Author Share Posted November 19, 2012 Thanks folks for this, much appreciated. I'll give Crystals and that optimistic fella a shout. Cheers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amc Posted November 25, 2012 Share Posted November 25, 2012 try the Antique Wine Company. Mother in law had a bottle of wine that looked more like cat p**s but they bought it off her for a nice price They wanted photos of the bottle and the cork and they were very helpful http://www.antique-wine.com/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Wright Posted November 25, 2012 Share Posted November 25, 2012 It isn't 1979 vintage. In fact most champagne, including this, is non vintage and is a mix of wines from different years to get a consistent taste. Vintage champagne is normally only declared a few years after harvest, fermentation and bottling. True vintage champagne can last a few decades if good and properly looked after. It becones less fizzy, down to petillante, before becoming still and is described as biscuity. Or it can become very vinegary and flat, flat champagne is terrible. Thye value is not in the wine, but in what it was bottled and sold as, a commemorative souvenir of the Millenium in 1979. Its more likely not going to be of any interest from a wine auction house Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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