Originally published at: http://boingboing.net/2017/08/09/1650-year-old-unopened-wine-b.html
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Balsamic vinegar, if they’re lucky.
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It looks like oil paint.
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Thats quite a generous description here…
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Wow, wine lasts pretty much a day in our house.
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SCIENTIST: It’s an amazing find; but the contents don’t look terribly well-preserved or appetizing.
BOTTLE OF WINE: When nearly seventeen hundred years old you reach, look as good you will not.
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Jacques Cousteau is alleged to have tasted a similarly old vintage. He also gave a sealed amphora from the same wreck to his friend Alexis Lichine as a gift. Lichine described the taste as follows:
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It just needs to breath a little.
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My wine teacher drank a c.800 yr old bottle of wine. She said it was fine but nothing special. It was a Madeira type, pre-oxidised for marine transport and robustness.
Think they found another in a bog quite recently.
This on the other hand should probably be opened in an anaerobic environment for scientific purposes only.
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“The bottle was dusty but the liquor was clean.”
–Robert Hunter/Jerry Garcia
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As for pairing, may I suggest the rancid mammoth jerky?
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Sounds like someone describing a hookup
I recall another Cousteau episode where dive-swag included a couple of bottles of 18th c.wine. The wine (with spiny lobster as the main dish, on board the “Calypso”) was declared a success.
Let it breath!
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Probably tastes like Minnie.
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FTFY
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Dude, that’s not wine – You found my 1,650 year old bottle of eggplant Parmesan!
(Now, if I could find the perfect drink to go with it…)
