27/11/2025
In wine groups on Facebook, questions like, “I found this old bottle in a cellar, what could it be worth?” often pop up. Nine times out of ten, no, rather 99 times out of a hundred, the answer is, “almost nothing, drink it instead.” It could be a “unknown Bordeaux from the 70s, a René Barbier of unknown age, but certainly from the 80s or older. But the other day we received an email with a similar question, but with a different answer. We said, “no, don’t drink it, at least not right away, it could be something that could be very valuable, maybe!” The bottle, or rather the bottles, that our reader had found were from the Titanic. Here’s the story, and what we suggested he do.
In wine groups on Facebook, questions like, “I found this old bottle in a cellar, what could it be worth?” often pop up. Nine times out of ten, no, rather 99 times out of a hundred, the answer is, “almost nothing, drink it instead.” It could be a “unknown Bordeaux from the 70s, a René Bar...
