Heidsieck & Co Monopole
Heidsieck & Co Monopole is set to pop the cork from a bottle of one of the world’s most famous and expensive Champagnes, the 1907 Heidsieck & Co Monopole Gout Americain, and you have a chance to enjoy this rare opportunity with a seat at the dinner table. Established in 1785, Heidsieck & Co Monopole, the fifth oldest Champagne house in France and the makers of today’s popular “Blue Top” Champagne, will give six lucky fizz lovers the chance to drink this most rare and unique Champagne that was once destined for the officers of the Imperial Russian army but found itself shipwrecked on the ill-fated voyage of the “Jonkoping” a Swedish schooner that was sunk in the Baltic Sea in 1916. The Champagne, “Gout Americain” (or “American Taste” – a style of Champagne from the early 1900’s) is now over 100 years old and a survivor of eight decades under the sea.
Re-discovered in 1998 by a deep sea search, The Heidsieck & Co Champagne on the Jonkoping was found to be perfectly preserved, the constant temperature and under water pressure almost perfect cellaring conditions. Bottles were immediately snapped up at auctions, with one particular bottle breaking auction house Christies’ record for the highest price paid for a single bottle of Champagne.
In Australia, at Number 8 Restaurant and Wine Bar at the Crown Entertainment Complex, this famous fizz is currently priced at $13,200 a bottle, making it the most expensive Champagne to be found on any wine list in Australia.
La Spina CD Launch
ABOUT 40 years ago in Brisbane, a brother and sister are born with powerhouse voices. Music becomes their life but they take different paths: he goes to opera and La Scala, she turns to pop and sings with Savage Garden.
Now tenor Rosario La Spina and his younger sister, singer-songwriter Anna-Maria, have come together for the first time in more than two decades for a genre-bending crossover album of big orchestral songs called Always You, released on August 6. The album is a collaboration between ABC Classics and Universal Music.
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