Dubbed ’nectar of the gods,’ 90-year-old spirit now worth $7,000 per bottle.
From MSNBC:
Villagers unearthed the first case of 15 bottles about 15 years ago. Since then, digs have yielded several cognac caches, usually of about two dozen bottles each. Some have been found by farmers plowing fields, and at least two batches came to light after a glint in the sand of an old trench caught a villager’s eye.
The old-fashioned cognac bottles can fetch up to nearly $7,000 from collectors, according to Mihail Petkov, professor of viticulture and oenology at Skopje University.
“I never had a chance to taste something like that,” he said. “What the villagers drank was probably a cognac, not a wine. The wines were intended to be consumed immediately … and not to last for a long period of time.”
“But with cognac the situation is different,” Petkov said. “The older, the better.”
More here. [Thanks to Ruchira Paul.]