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Since the magnificent champagne find was made on the wreck outside Åland’s Silverskär, there has been a beautiful connection between Champagne and the Åland population. It’s been more than a decade since the first bottles of Juglar and Veuve Clicquot from 1840 were salvaged and auctioned off at record prices before the world’s fascinated eyes. Already when I had my first meeting on Åland as an exclusive consultant for the Åland Landscape Government, it was clear that the most important thing for the Åland people was to put Åland on the map, and they have certainly done that. Unfortunately, it went exactly as I predicted in my “Juhlin report”.
‘After all, I wanted the bottles to remain under water in a pristine environment for as long as possible to still be vital and enjoyable.’
When it didn’t work for practical reasons, it took less than a year before the bottles were lifeless and completely uninteresting from a wine connoisseur’s perspective. The original plan to create a new cuvée of young wines with a splash of 1840 Silverskär was shelved by Dominique Demarville to the great disappointment of the Åland people.
Fortunately, however, Veuve Clicquot continued its involvement in the project and found an important lifeline in that immediately after the auction they began a very interesting project called Cellar in the Sea. In short, it’s about seeing how sparkling wine develops when stored with the same pressure on the outside as on the inside in seawater at a significantly lower temperature than the one you have in champagne cellars.
It was decided to sink a few hundred bottles of 2004 Veuve Clicquot Rosé, Veuve Clicquot Demi-Sec (2010-base), Yellow Label (2010-base) and Veuve Clicquot Brut (2008-base) in magnums in metal cages to 50 meters deep in a temperature of 4.5 degrees and put away exactly the same amount of these wines in the cellars of Reims. The first time they picked up and unloaded the cages and did a comparative test was in 2017 and now in 2023 it was time again for the same exercise in midsummer at the scenic Klobben a stone’s throw from the cages
Veuve Clicquot launch cruise Baltic Sea to discover its that will take you to the submerged cellar
A cruise dedicated to Champagne
In 2010, an unprecedented discovery of several bottles of Champagne, that were almost 200 years old, were found in a shipwreck off the Åland Islands, in the Baltic Sea. To the surprise of the divers the contents of the bottles were perfectly preserved, which is what inspired everyone’s favourite Champagne house, Veuve Clicquot, to launch its Cellar in the Sea program.
As part of this 40-year-long experiment Veuve Clicquot has submerged a batch of bottled bubbles 40 metres below the water’s surface to see if this natural cellar is an effective way of storing Champagne. The lack of light and low temperature – the water temperature remains at 4 degrees Celsius throughout the year – make for superb storage conditions.
The Champagne house also stored a batch of the same Champagne in Maison Clicquot’s cellar, the Crayères, which are former chalk quarries, beneath the city of Reims. Veuve Clicquot intends to retrieve the bottles at regular intervals to compare the taste between the submerged bottles and cellar bottles.
To celebrate the first taste, Veuve Clicquot is inviting Champagne lovers to join them on a voyage from Reims to the Baltic Sea on the inaugural Solaire Voyage. The experience will begin in Champagne with a garden lunch among the vine and continue in the Crayères, followed by a gala dinner at Hôtel du Marc, the private residence of Veuve Clicquot.
You will then travel by air to board a sailing ship which will take you to the remote island of Silverskår, where you will stay for two nights in the midst of the Midsummer celebrations. During your voyage you will taste some of the House’s rarest vintages paired with traditional dishes prepared by some of the finest starred chefs in the region.
And for the piece de resistance, guests will also be invited to meet the driver who discovered the wreck in 2010. If you’re an experienced diver you will also be able to descend with him into the depths to see the incredible Åland Vault, where the precious bottles are submerged.
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