Camel Valley launches £300 sparkling wine for jubilee
Camel Valley Vineyard is to launch its most expensive bottle of sparkling wine with a price tag of £299, to mark the Queen's Diamond Jubilee.
The giant Methuselah which holds six litres (the equivalent of eight 70cl bottles) will see just six produced - with two having already been sold after news leaked out.
Sam Lindo, Camel Valley winemaker, said the process was a "huge" technical challenge.
"They will be filled with our 2010 Sparkling Pinot Noir Rosé which came first in the largest blind tasting of English Sparkling Wines in March 2012, organised by Stephen Skelton MW, and judged by other Masters of Wine including Jancis Robinson, and prominent wine traders and writers.
'Our next challenge will be to produce a Nebuchadnezzar which holds 15 litres, and the empty bottle alone will cost us £400.
"With a capacity of 20 regular bottles that will have to be for one heck of a party."
Customers will be offered £40 on the return of the Methuselah bottle after drinking.
Sam Lindo is the current 2011 UK Wine Maker of the year and was also wine maker of the year in 2010 and 2007.
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