Old bottle of wine

FreeBear

Doozergirl wrote: »

Bring a back up, just in case :rotfl:

Most of what is in the cellar is Port dating from between 1963 and 2007. Not sure I'd want to bring a whole case.

renegadefm

Has it got a proper shop seal?
Reason I say that I was watching Antiques roadshow the other day and somone brought in an ancient wine bottle, but the contents was very unpleasant, it was someone's urine.
Apparently in ancient times people used to keep urine in the loaf or celler to ward off nasty spirits.
So be careful if your tasting or drinking it.

renegadefm

Sorry loft or celler

Kiran

Belenus wrote: »

Was it lying on its side (good) or upright (bad)?

If it was upright the chances are that the cork will have dried out and allowed air in that will have oxygenated the wine and degraded or even ruined it.

If it was lying on its side it might still be on good condition.

^^^^This^^^^^^


This is what I was going to say, but failing all else, give it a sniff then a taste!

Frank99

Can't stomach French Wine after a man in the south of France told us they urinate on the grapes of wine destined for the UK cos they hate us that much, prefer chilean even though syanide was found naturally ocurring on their grapes lol.

TELLIT01

Frank99 wrote: »

Can't stomach French Wine after a man in the south of France told us they urinate on the grapes of wine destined for the UK cos they hate us that much, prefer chilean even though syanide was found naturally ocurring on their grapes lol.

Believe that and you'll believe anything. Grapes for the general consumer market are pressed in massive quantities so the end market would not be identifiable at the pressing stage.

bouicca21

When I cleared my mum’s house I found a couple of bottles of wine, probably 5-10 years old. Opened them up, vinegar would have tasted better.