Mmmmmm. Tastes old.

At least, that’s what you might say while sipping a glass of 200-year-old champagne.

Chalk it up to that super-refined palate.

But there are those who don’t mind spending a pretty penny on champagne that’s been around for a couple centuries. Wait, make that 15 million pennies.

The Finnish government is getting ready to auction off bottles of champagne recently discovered by divers exploring a shipwreck. The bottles date back to the late 18th century and early 19th century, and they’re expected to fetch around $150,000.

From TIME magazine:

In July, divers found a stash of about 150 champagne bottles during a search of a sunken two-masted schooner off the shores of Finland’s autonomous province of Aland. The local government uncorked some bottles for the media in November and announced they would hold an auction later on. Now that the auction date has been set and the location named as the capital city Mariehamn, attention turns to the two bottles: one from the house of Veuve-Clicquot and another from the defunct house of Juglar.

A champagne expert tasted the wine and said said one had hints of “linden blossoms and lime peels,” while the other tasted “mushroomy.”

Mmmmmm. Mushroomy.

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