Saturday 26 July 2014

Is a vintage white wine from 350 A.D. drinkable?



They say that wines get better as they age, but historians are debating on whether or not to open the world's oldest bottle of wine that has been on display at the Pfalz Historical Museum for over 100 years.

Nobody knows how this wine would taste even though it's not spoiled microbiologically. The curators are not sure how the wine and the bottle would handle being opened –  many are convinced it wouldn't be palatable.

The bottle in question was buried with a Roman noble in the German countryside and found sometime during WWI. Most historians agree it was buried in approximately 350 AD.

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