There are tons of articles about affordable sparkling wine floating around this time of year.

 But what if "affordable" isn't what you're looking for? What if you have a whole ton of cash that you need to get rid of — fast? (We're looking at you, 1920s bootleggers!)

That's where the world's most expensive sparkling wines come in. If you want to ring in the new year with a little debt or are just really, stinking rich, we've got the list for you.
Dom Perignon 1966
From the winery that claims the name of the monk who popularized Champagne is a bottle of 1966 vintage Champagne (a favorite year for many wine lovers), which can be found in a private cellar in Belgium.
If you want to try to buy a bottle of this bubbly off the Belgian owner, it will cost you (at last check) $1,965.
Louis Roederer Cristal
Before it was the beverage of choice for hip-hop icons, Cristal was made for the Russian royal family in the late 19th century.
The tsar at the time, Alexander II, was constantly under the threat of assassination.
In order to make sure he could safely continue to consume Champagne, Cristal made its bottles from clear lead crystal (hence the name) rather than the typical green glass.
That way bombs or poisons would not go undetected. A standard bottle of this historic potable will run you a mere couple hundred dollars.
 Real high rollers will opt for the Cristal Brut 1990 Methuselah (a six-liter bottle), which is valued at over $17,500. 
1928 Krug
When it was last auctioned on its 80^th birthday, this vintage of Krug sold for $21,000 at the Acker Merral & Condit auction in Hong Kong.
The economy has only gotten better since then, so we're guessing the price hasn't gone down.
Piper Heidsieck 1907
Veuve Clicquot's shipwreck Champagne has yet to go to auction, but it's not the only sunken sipper out there.
Two thousand bottles of Piper Heisieck 1907 vintage were recovered from a sunken ship in 1998.
The ship had been transporting the wine from Finland to Tsar Nicholas II of Russia in 1916 when the boat was struck by a German torpedo.
The bottles were well preserved by the cool temperature and darkness of their undersea cellar.
The value of one of these bottles is close to $275,000, making it the most expensive Champagne in the world.
https://www.delish.com/food/recalls-reviews/the-most-expensive-champagnes?GT1=47001