The World's Most Expensive Bottle of Sherry

In 2001, the London auctioneers Sothebys sold the most expensive Sherry ever sold, for $ 43,500. The bottle, bearing the Imperial seal, was dated 1775, and was found in the Massandra cellars in the Crimea. These cellars contained over a million bottles of Russian and European wines, and this Sherry was the oldest of the European wines. Massandra was also a winery, where this Sherry was most likely bottled. The winery was highly regarded in Tsarist times, and later produced its own "Sherry" among other wines.

It was the property of Tsar Nicolas II, and Stalin ordered the Soviet Revolutionaries to preserve it and all its contents, and it has been preserved till now. It formed a part of a collection, along with other bottles of different Sherries which were laid down in these famous cellars, some from 1841. The wine has now been re-valued at $ 52,000, and is considered one of the 10 most expensive bottles of wine in the world. Occasionally, wines from Massandra are to be found at auction.

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