Wednesday, October 3, 2018

The world's oldest wine

It dates from the Roman Empire:
The Speyer wine bottle (or "Römerwein") is a sealed vessel, presumed to contain liquid wine, and so named because it was unearthed from a Roman tomb found near Speyer, Germany. It is considered the world's oldest known bottle of wine.
It's still full of liquid:


You can see the high quality of the glass bottle.  Roman glass was highly prized by other civilizations and was widely exported as a luxury good.  Roman glass is found regularly in China.

But it's cool to see the actual liquid wine from ca. 325 AD.

3 comments:

  1. Being so old, is it now the oldest bottle of vinegar?
    We will never know...

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  2. Wine scientists the world over must be dying to analyze a sample.

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