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This 2000-Year-Old Wine Is Still Pourable. But You Don’t Want to Drink It
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this post was submitted on 30 Jun 2024
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My town has one of the oldest underground wine cellars in Europe with some bottles up to 300 years old. I talked to somebody maintaining the wine cellar and part of the cork replacement procedure that happens about every 50 years is to taste the wine - just a drop though. Apparently it's pretty awful. His colleague said "You have to taste your way up to one of these!" which sounds like bullshit to me. I bet it doesn't get better after 1700 more years.
The real problem is once you get a taste for it, only 1,000 year old bottles will do.
More like taste your way down