“When the archaeologists opened the urn we almost froze,” he ... discovery dethrones the current holder of the record for oldest wine in a liquid state, the Speyer wine bottle, found in ...

Until now, the presumed oldest wine preserved in its liquid state was ... but the bottle has never been opened. As a result, the identity of the liquid has yet to be confirmed by chemical analysis.

was thought to contain the oldest known wine, but it has never been opened. The Spanish tomb, accidentally discovered in 2019 in Carmona, near Seville, dates from the 1st century AD and belonged ...