Xinhua, 4 Jun 2011
BEIJING, June 4 (Xinhuanet) -- A new world record price for champagne sold at an auction has been set. An anonymous bidder from Singapore paid 30,000 Euros for a 200-year-old bottle of Veuve Cliquot.
As well, another champagne bottle made by Juglar, which went out of business in the early 19th Century, fetched 24,000 Euros. Friday's auction was held in Mariehamn, the capital of the autonomous Aland Islands, a Finnish archipelago situated between Sweden and Finland. Full story
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