In January 2024, a 30-year-old bottle of Scotch whiskey sold for $2.8 million. A mere decade ago, however, the top price paid for a single bottle of whiskey at auction was $800,000.

A 2021 Cognac auction featured five extremely old bottles of a similar quality: 1777 Cognac distilled at Domaine de la Vie and bottled in 1936. The lot sold for £40,500, roughly $50,700.

The bottle was closed with an old cork that had stuck to the glass, and had to be carefully drilled out to reach the note. “We were shaking, especially me,” Miller recalled to the Times.

Birdsong died at the scene, and the 17-year-old was not critically injured, according to prior reporting from The Tennessean. Sowa was arrested in November 2021.

A message rolled up inside a flask and left at an ancient archaeological site nearly 200 years ago was discovered by a group of volunteers surveying the area in northern France.

If not as lucrative as a treasure map, the note turned out to be more relevant to their work, at least: It was a 132-year-old missive, written in ink, from former engineers and lighthouse keepers ...

This glass is a blast from the past. A 200-year-old message in a bottle was recently unearthed by volunteers in the midst of an archaeological dig in northern France.

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The oldest message in a bottle ever found was 131 years and 223 days old when it was discovered, Guinness World Records said in a statement.Australians Tonya and Kym Illman found the message on ...

Nov. 25 (UPI) --An engineer conducting an inspection at a 209-year-old Scottish lighthouse discovered a message in a bottle dating back 132 years.Ross Russell, a Northern Lighthouse Board ...