Shipwrecked Champagne and High-Class Hooch Thieves
By Crime HQ
December 31, 2012In 1998, the discovery of the sunken Swedish freighter Jönköping off Finland surfaced about 2,000 very old bottles of bubbly. During World War I, the ship was chartered to deliver its fizz to Tsar Nicholas II of Russia, but was waylaid by the torpedo of a German submarine. Fortunately for collectors and wine aficionados, the…