TO GO WITH AFP STORY BY GERSENDE RAMBOURG (FILES) A file picture taken on November 17, 2010 shows a man pouring a 200-year-old Veuve Clicquot champagne in Mariehamn, Finland. This Veuve Clicquot bottle of champagne is part of the booty of 162 bottles from a shipwreck dating from years 1840, discovered in July 2010 on the sea floor near Finland's autonomous Aaland archipelago. Eleven bottles of what is believed to be the world's oldest bubbly will be auctioned next June 8, 2012, by French auction house Artcurial in the Aaland archipelago, starting to 10.000 euros ($13,205) each. AFP PHOTO/JONATHAN NACKSTRAND (Photo credit should read JONATHAN NACKSTRAND/AFP via Getty Images)
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