What is the market price for a bottle of 1976 Montaudon Champagne?

Answer 1

This is difficult since the wine is quite old for a Champagne.
The best way to tell is to put the wine up for auction on winebid.com or winecommune.com to see what it will fetch.

If you don't want to sell it, maybe insure it? Let's consider the basic factors and then try to estimate a range for the bottle:

1. Champagne is not a popular auction item compared to first growth Bordeaux or California Cabernets

2. 1976 was a Miliesime year, which was considered excellent, so you have that going for you. For example, a 1976 René Collard Cuvee Reservee Millesime is for sale at K&L for $75.

3. The bottle you have is rare, so for the right person, it could be considered valuable. After all a market is a willing buyer and a willing seller agreeing on a price.

4. Montaudon Champagne is a middle-market priced wine on release. Where the Collard sells for $40 for recent vintages, Montaudon sells for under $30.

Given all of these factors, if the bottle was properly cellared and all the lables and seals in pristine condition, I would estimate the bottle to be worth $50 to $60.

Answer 2

There will not be a market price for this wine. It is too old and not famous enough to be on shop shelves.

Montaudon is an inexpensive Champagne. A thirty year old vintage will be -- lets say -- an aquuired taste appreciated only by those that like really old Champagne.

What any buyer will want to know is -- how well has it been kept? Has it been kept in perfect conditions? If not I would think it is of no interest to a winelover.

However there are al ot of people who think (incorrectly) that any old wine is valuable and you might be able to sell it on to one of them.

I'd open it -- and have a standby bottle in case....