10 December 2011

Oldest bottle of wine

Name: Roman wine

Type: white wine

Year: 350AD

Age: 1,661 years

Brewery location: local

Storage location: has been displayed at the Pfalz Historical Musuem, Germany for more than 100 years. Before that it was found buried with a Roman noble near the German city of Speyer in 1867.

Condition: sealed with wax and contains a white liquid. Wine expert Monika Christmann said that even though it might not have gone bad, it would not taste nice.

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