Posted on 09/06/2018 10:56:14 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
The age of the Speyer wine bottle is epic, estimated at around 1,650 years. Its makers did well by sealing it with hot wax and splashing it with olive oil, which is how the bottle, containing a presumably once drinkable white wine, has maintained the liquid inside it... Microbiologists have recommended not opening the wine and the same opinion was shared by the museum's wine department curator, Ludger Tekampe, who in the past stated that if the bottle were to be opened, "We are not sure whether or not it could stand the shock of the air." ..finding the Speyer Wine in the grave of a Roman noble in 1867, in the Rhineland-Palatine region of Germany... The antique bottle took its name from the city of Speyer, which was located in close proximity to the tomb it was found in. The nobleman, along with his wife, had been buried there with the wine around 350 AD, and archaeologists were utterly baffled when they realized the bottle still contained liquid. To date, the wine is considered the earliest known liquid wine ever excavated from an archaeological site anywhere in the world... the identity of the nobleman... suggests that he was a Roman Legionnaire... A chemist analyzed the Speyer bottle during World War I, but he did not dare to open it and after that, the wine was stored in the German museum in Speyer. While many scientists have hoped to obtain permission to analyze the bottle's contents thoroughly, nobody has been granted one yet.
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Just plain nasty tasting.
And I say, it’s all just talk, unless it’s the one they call, “Cold Cock”
https://view.yahoo.com/show/saturday-night-live/clip/40037263/coldcock
Not a fan of chunky wine.
PBR is like that. if it’s over 34 degrees it’s intolerable.
They did so some inhumations. Im thinking in particular of some books Ive read about the excavations of the necropolis under St Peters in which there were ashes in a. Umber of graves, but also plenty of bodies buried. There was also the Roman custom of installing tubes down into the graves through which libations could be poured. Maybe this is a variation of that, or the deceased was a romanized local, as burial of grave goods was widely practiced in a number of cultures
It's Germany, there's been a couple of world wars since this was found, they probably forced someone to try a sip.
The band Genesis had a similar experience, even wrote a song about it.
White wine doesn’t age well. If it was red wine they might be able to have a drink.
Ripples?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJa9gEUa0To
My favorite song by Genesis. Actually the song is about aging, and on the album cover it’s represented by the old woman looking at a reflection of her younger self in the mirror.
Now this Genesis song is about wine...
Twilight Alehouse (Great song from the Gabriel-era)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mH7PmtaVR74
Apropos of nothing, Harrison Ford did a spit out the worm move in at least a couple of his movies, perhaps he was trying to make it a sort of trademark.
Heh, the wine OTOH is a one of a kind survival from a lost civilization. "This painting's out of style, old master or no old master. But I like the frame, get the crowbar..."
I have a fetish for elegant ‘containers’ of all sorts.
Sure, but who gets buried with that?
If it had been up to him, he'd have sold none of it, and just drink it all.
Tequila doesn’t have a worm (actually a moth larvae) in it, Mezcal does. A common misconception.
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