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Some bubbles are worth more than others: particularly when they\u2019ve crossed paths with royalty. Take a magnum of Dom P\u00e9rignon Vintage 1961, served at the wedding of Princess Diana and Prince Charles<\/strong><\/a> decades before he would become King.<\/p>\n On December 11, one of these very rare bottles will be auctioned off by Bruun Rasmussen at Kongens Lyngby, a Danish auction house on the outskirts of Copenhagen. The vintage is from 1961, the year of the bride\u2019s birth. It was disgorged twenty years later and labeled with a historical note: \u201cShipped specially in honor of the wedding of His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales and Lady Diana Spencer, July 29, 1981.\u201d<\/p>\n As Thomas Rosendahl Andersen<\/strong>, Bruun Rasmussen\u2019s wine manager, told AFP<\/a>: \u201cThere are only twelve magnums available, and this is one of them.\u201d The rarity and historic nature of this bottle, created especially for the blockbuster royal wedding, promises to generate huge bids: the magnum is estimated at between 67,000 and 80,000 euros, or $78,000 and $95,000.<\/p>\n Whoever buys it will be able to sip it with ease, according to the expert. \u201cIt\u2019s perfectly drinkable,\u201d says Andersen. \u201cAll the bottles of wine we sell at auction are examined and analyzed. For this type of bottle, we carry out several tests, including illuminating the bottle to check that the contents, i.e. the wine itself, has a very nice, clear color, and that it\u2019s not brown and cloudy.\u201d Andersen therefore believes that this unusual bottle could attract a wide variety of bidders: \u201cIt could be a classic wine collector, who finds it amusing to have this bottle in his collection, but also a collector of royal objects, who collects items perhaps related to Lady Diana or English royal memorabilia.\u201d<\/p>\n For good reason: almost thirty years after her tragic death<\/a>, Princess Diana\u2019s personal effects are still driving bids up to staggering sums. The same is true of mementos from her ill-fated marriage to Charles<\/a>\u2014including the most bizarre, such as a slice of cake that sold for 2,600 euros in July 2021<\/a>. The owner of the bottle, set for auction on December 11, is an anonymous collector who bought the magnum from a London dealer, the AFP reports.<\/p>\n This is not the first time that a magnum produced for this very special occasion has been auctioned: in 2004, a sale was cancelled<\/a> for lack of a buyer. Clearly, no one wanted to pay $2030 for the bottle. Mo\u00ebt & Chandon had recommended drinking it \u201cwithin two or three years\u201d of the wedding, CBS reported at the time<\/a>. Bidding in Swindon, west of London, stagnated at the equivalent of $2,128 before the sale was called off. Four years later, Heritage Auction had sold a magnum of this vintage for $12,000, or around 10,300 euros. Here is hoping the next sale of these rare bubbles won\u2019t fall flat.<\/p>\n Originally published in Vanity Fair France<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n