{"id":163321,"date":"2025-12-01T22:01:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T22:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/163321\/"},"modified":"2025-12-01T22:01:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T22:01:08","slug":"charles-and-dianas-rare-wedding-champagne-to-be-auctioned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/163321\/","title":{"rendered":"Charles and Diana\u2019s rare wedding champagne to be auctioned"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"CHLSLkBXpVqCICiH\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cYou can absolutely drink it. Every bottle of wine we sell at auction is examined and inspected,\u201d said Rosendahl.<\/p>\n<p class=\"CHLSLkBXpVqCICiH\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cFor something like this, we check many different things, including shining light through the bottle to ensure that the contents, the wine itself, have a very nice and clear colour, and are not brown and cloudy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"CHLSLkBXpVqCICiH\" style=\"display:none\">The current owner of the magnum, a collector who does not want his identity to be made public, obtained the bottle from a London dealer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"CHLSLkBXpVqCICiH\" style=\"display:none\">Champagne from the wedding has not always proved a hit with collectors \u2013 a magnum failed to find a buyer at a British auction in 2004. However, four years later, another fetched around US$12,000.<\/p>\n<p class=\"CHLSLkBXpVqCICiH\" style=\"display:none\">-Agence France-Presse<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cYou can absolutely drink it. Every bottle of wine we sell at auction is examined and inspected,\u201d said&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":163322,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[107139,95,107138,5195,68692,21639,9861,12696,8668,107137,156,71,21140,107140,9860,4486,111,139,425,69,4940,28821,8205,1961,61,8238,15315,1533],"class_list":["post-163321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-107139","tag-and","tag-auctioned","tag-be","tag-bottles","tag-champagne","tag-charles","tag-denmark","tag-diana","tag-dianas","tag-entertainment","tag-from","tag-hammer","tag-iii","tag-king","tag-month","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-now","tag-nz","tag-prince","tag-princess","tag-rare","tag-this","tag-to","tag-under","tag-wedding","tag-will"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163321\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/163322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}