Any wine experts on here? Any intellectuals on here? …Yeh ok, I know it’s a long shot 
… I reckon a lot of you are the cheap bottle of cider drinkers, sat in your vest and y fronts in the front room, eating a jar of pickled onions while watching telly 
but who knows, there maybe a couple of Lawrence Llewellyn Bowen types on here, and for the pickle eaters, no it aint Jim Bowen’s dad
Anyway here goes I have got a bottle of 1983 Moet et Chandon champagne given as a wedding present in 83 from somebody well off.
It must be a well known champagne as it is mentioned in the Queen track ‘Killer Queen’ that is my logic anyway 
so here goes.
Is it actually a good Champagne or is it just Blue Nun type cheap plonk.
Is it still drinkable.
Does it get better with age, or does it go off.
Is it worth anything, for instance was 83 a good year for M & C.
Anybody know■■?
Cheers.
Don’t know the first thing about wine, or what constitutes a good year, I’m not really a drinker. But I have heard that sometimes the label is worth more than the bottle and what’s inside it. Might be worth finding that out.
Unless it’s been stored at the correct constant temperature and the neck / Cork has been in a downward position keeping the Cork wet then it’ll more than likely be vinegar.
As the Cork drys air is allowed into the bottle and as said steady temperature has to be maintained.
All this from a program about wines etc
Wot Nick said. Properly stored in a cellar, it might be worth £100. Kept in a garage/shed/kitchen cupboard it is next to worthless. Even if it has been stored properly, it won’t improve for keeping. So if the idea is to drink it, do it sooner rather than later (and have a bottle of cheap supermarket fizz on standby just in case it has turned to vinegar).
Or sprinkle it on your chips…
It’s champers not wine that Robroy is asking about. Champagne unlike wine does not mature with age so there’s no mileage in leaving it years before drinking. Any value will merely be because of it’s age, but whereas wine can be a good investment the value of champagne tends not to differ.
My advice Rob is to pop your cork (ooh err missus) wallop it into you and post the results here!
the maoster:
It’s champers not wine that Robroy is asking about. Champagne unlike wine does not mature with age so there’s no mileage in leaving it years before drinking. Any value will merely be because of it’s age, but whereas wine can be a good investment the value of champagne tends not to differ.My advice Rob is to pop your cork (ooh err missus) wallop it into you and post the results here!
ER did I say it will taste better anywhere…
Duh - champagne is wine. Albeit one produced in the Champagne region of Northern France which (owing to the cold Winters experienced in that part of the world) has its fermentation interrupted during cold spells, resulting in unfermented sugars and dormant yeast remaining after bottling. So there would be some secondary fermentation which results in dissolved CO2 in the wine (unlike a wooden barrel, a glass bottle is pretty well sealed, so preventing the gas from escaping) which gives it the characteristic “fizz”.
Just like many other white wines (still and sparkling), decent champagne benefits from being properly stored for at least a few months before drinking, although 10-15 years is probably about as long as you’d want to keep it - there would be no more improvement and an increasing likelihood of deterioration.
Doesnt look like youll be trotting off to Sothebys with it any time soon then, robroy! 
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