A bottle of wine dating from when Queen Victoria was on the throne and the Boer War was raging is to go on sale.
The 1900 Ch teau d’Yquem, a sweet white wine ages particularly well and an 1811 vintage sold in 2011 for £75,000 making it the most valuable bottle of white in the world.
Fans of the vine include American statesman and Founding Father Thomas Jefferson when he was Minister Plenipotentiary to France, a diplomat one rank below an ambassador.