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The Speyer wine bottle (or Römerwein [1]) is a sealed vessel, presumed to contain liquid wine, and so named because it was unearthed from a Roman tomb found near Speyer, Germany. It contained the world's oldest known liquid wine (dated to about AD 325), until 2024, when a 1st century AD urn within a Roman tomb - found in 2019 in the southern ...
A 2,000-year-old Roman funerary urn unearthed in southern Spain has been shown to contain the oldest wine ever found still in liquid form. ... the Speyer wine bottle, found in Germany, which is ...
A Roman statue of Bacchus, god of wine (c. 150 AD, copied from a Hellenistic original, Prado Museum, Madrid).. Ancient Rome played a pivotal role in the history of wine.The earliest influences on the viticulture of the Italian Peninsula can be traced to ancient Greeks and the Etruscans.
The urn was discovered in 2019 in Carmona, Spain during excavations of the city's western Roman necropolis. Analysis of the urn's contents five years after its discovery demonstrated the contents to be the oldest surviving wine in the world. This surpasses the previous record holder, the Speyer wine bottle (discovered in 1867), by three centuries.
It was previously thought that the oldest wine preserved in a liquid state was in a Speyer wine bottle, which was unearthed from a Roman tomb near the town of Speyer in Germany and dated between A ...
Researchers used a pioneering technique to demystify the flavors of ancient wines. ‘Spicy’ wine? New study reveals ancient Romans may have had peculiar tastes
The oldest surviving urn of wine in liquid state was found in 2019 in a Roman mausoleum in Carmona, southern Spain, and is about 2000 years old. [85] The second oldest surviving bottle still containing liquid wine is the Speyer wine bottle, that belonged to a Roman nobleman and it is dated at 325 or 350 AD. [86] [87]
The Greek physician Galen wrote that the "taste" of aged wine was desirable and that this could be accomplished by heating or smoking the wine, though, in Galen's opinion, these artificially aged wines were not as healthy to consume as naturally aged wines. [4] Bottles with cork closure reinvented the process of wine aging.