This 2000-Year-Old Wine Is Still Pourable. But You Don’t Want to Drink It
This 2000-Year-Old Wine Is Still Pourable. But You Don’t Want to Drink It
A wine still liquid after two millennia turned up at a construction site near Seville, Spain
"pourable" is used to describe wine about as often as "theoretically non-toxic"
37 0 ReplyI was in the drink it camp right up until
the experts found bone remains and a gold ring at the bottom of the glass vessel.
It must have been a bone dry white wine though
76 2 ReplyAh, so a full bodied wine.
20 0 ReplyAh yes, a Soylent White Cabernet.
9 0 ReplyI've had homemade distilled rice wine before that had tobacco leaves, a starfish, and a lizard in the bottle. It was actually really good.
6 0 ReplyEw, did Beetlejuice put his engagement ring complete with severed finger in someone's wine glass?
3 0 ReplyThe original Sourtoe Cocktail
7 0 ReplyThat just adds character and flavor. 🥂
6 0 ReplyPfffflt, weak
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I save & use all my vinegars (some for drinks!)
7 0 ReplyHow is it even a wine at this point? Doesn't it naturally become vinegar after long enough?
14 0 ReplyWhen it oxidizes yes iirc. No or ultra low oxygen content means that process is greatly delayed.
11 1 ReplyOxidization is not the process that turns wine into vinegar, it is a secondary fermentation by bacteria that does it.
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The liquid is still liquid.
9 1 Reply22 1 ReplyMy town has one of the oldest underground wine cellars in Europe with some bottles up to 300 years old. I talked to somebody maintaining the wine cellar and part of the cork replacement procedure that happens about every 50 years is to taste the wine - just a drop though. Apparently it's pretty awful. His colleague said "You have to taste your way up to one of these!" which sounds like bullshit to me. I bet it doesn't get better after 1700 more years.
29 0 ReplyThe real problem is once you get a taste for it, only 1,000 year old bottles will do.
34 0 Replytaste your way up
More like taste your way down
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Don't tell me what I do or do not want to do.
19 1 ReplyLooks like a rusted skateboard bearing.
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