The Speyer Wine Bottle: the oldest unopened bottle of wine in the world

The Vintage News ^ | November 23, 2016 | Brad Smithfield

[Ouderkirk]

Worked every time...if you could choke it down.

Just plain nasty tasting.

[dfwgator]

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

[Secret Agent Man]

Not a fan of chunky wine.

[Mase]

Hail corkmaster, The master of the cork, He knows which wine goes with fish or pork!

[V_TWIN]

PBR is like that. if it’s over 34 degrees it’s intolerable.

[j.havenfarm]

They did so some inhumations. I’m thinking in particular of some books I’ve 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

[SunkenCiv]

It's Germany, there's been a couple of world wars since this was found, they probably forced someone to try a sip.

[SunkenCiv]

The band Genesis had a similar experience, even wrote a song about it.

[SaxxonWoods]

White wine doesn’t age well. If it was red wine they might be able to have a drink.

[dfwgator]

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.

[dfwgator]

Now this Genesis song is about wine...

Twilight Alehouse (Great song from the Gabriel-era)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mH7PmtaVR74

[SunkenCiv]

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.

[SunkenCiv]

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..."

[Buckeye McFrog]

World's oldest wine? Aisle five.

[Jamestown1630]

I have a fetish for elegant ‘containers’ of all sorts.

[SunkenCiv]

Serve both with this loaf of bread from Herculaneum.

[SunkenCiv]

Sure, but who gets buried with that?

[SunkenCiv]

If it had been up to him, he'd have sold none of it, and just drink it all.

[dfwgator]

Now this is what I call sloshed...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFevH5vP32s

[Oshkalaboomboom]

Tequila doesn’t have a worm (actually a moth larvae) in it, Mezcal does. A common misconception.