Why don't we try the 1775?

There were five bottles of the 1775 Jeres de la Frontera gathering dust in the Massandra wine cellars when Russia's Vladimir Putin and Italy's Silvio Berlusconi dropped by for a tour. Now there are four.

The two old friends apparently were quite taken with the 500,000 bottles remaining of the collection founded by Prince Lev Golitsyn who started the first winery in Crimea in 1894. In the footage above, Mr Berlusconi is seen picking up a 1891 vintage and asking “Can we drink them?”
According to a report of the visit the two leaders apparently had such a good time at the winery that Mr Putin even joined in for an uncharacteristically lighthearted photo, raising his hands above his head with Mr Berlusconi and the winery employees.
And, as you do after a winery tour, there was a tasting to follow where the cellar Director Yanina Pavlenko was apparently the one who uncorked the 240 year old bottle for Messrs Putin and Berlusconi.
No tasting note is available that I can find but the prosecutor general of the former Crimean government, which has been operating in exile since Russia annexed the peninsula in 2014, didn’t find the VIP degustation amusing. He has opened a criminal case for large scale theft over the incident, estimating the loss at 2 million hryvnia, or about €80,000, the Centre of Journalistic Investigations reported.