Friday 8 June 2012

Oldest Bottle of Wine

Random discussion - which (and where) is the worlds oldest bottle of wine. This seems to be difficult to find out. The most obvious contender is a bottle of wine which was buried with a Roman noble.

After that, its more difficult. There would appear to be some wines from before 1700 which are still drinkable and still in their cask/barrels. I'm not sure if wine drawn from these casks and then bottled counts. There seem to be several different bottled contenders from the 1770's and beyond. I've not listed anything after 1800.


Year Where Which wine
350 Pfalz Historical Musuem Germany Buried with a Roman noble
1472 La Cave Historique des Hospices de Strasbourg  Strasbourg Still in barrel
1653 Town hall, Bremen Germany Still in cask
1727 Graycliff Hotel Bahamas Rudesheimer Apostelwein from Bremen Ratsfeller. Bottled in 1950s
1775 ?? ?? Massandra
1787 ?? ?? Château d’Yquem
1787 former U.S President, Thomas Jefferson  ?? Chateau Lafite
1787 ?? ?? Chateau Margaux
1788 Baltic Seabed, Aland Aland, Finland Clicquot, Juglar, Heidsieck Champagne

An assortment of links for these:

http://www.museum.speyer.de/English/Permanent_exhibitions/Weinmuseum_The_Wine_Museum_.htm
http://www.strasbourg.info/sights/wine-cellar/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Town_Hall_of_Bremen
http://www.finestandrarest.com/german.html
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-10673322

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