13 drinks that have survived time and are the oldest in the world
Finding historical objects is always an interesting discovery because, in general, they carry with them the memory of the events and places where they passed. In the case of drinks, they bring an air of mystery about the people who made it and those who intended to drink it.
Still, from wines, whiskeys, champagnes and gins, it is possible to understand their method of production, besides the labels, which reveal more details of their history. After all these years, not all drinks are still fit for consumption, but with a bit of luck, historians, collectors and onlookers can find bottles that have stood the test of time and can still be tasted. Check out!
1. Carafe of wine
The opening image bottles of this material and this wine jar are the oldest archaeological evidence of wine production that has ever been found. The pieces are about 7, 000 years old and were discovered in the 1960s in the Haiji Firuz Teoe area of Iran.
2. Roman Wine
This mid-4th-century bottle of wine was buried in a Roman sarcophagus in today's Speyer region of Germany. The object was found in 1867, and an analysis showed that about one third of its content was olive oil, an ingredient widely used to prevent the oxidation of wine.
3. German Wine
The city of Bremen, Germany, is famous for having a cellar where 12 casks of wine dating from the 17th and 18th centuries are stored, each named after an apostle. Older barrels date from 1653, but wine can no longer be consumed.
The most famous kite is Judas, which holds a wine produced in 1727 that can still be tasted and is considered by some to be the best wine of the 18th century. Interestingly, the drink produced there was never sold, but was periodically bottled and offered. as a gift from the Bremen government to the heads of state and royalty visiting the city.
4. Hungarian wine
Hungarian Tokaji wine belonged to the royal Saxon cellar and was bottled in the 1680s.
5. Spanish Wine
Massandra is the oldest cellar in Ukraine and that was where the Sherry de la Frontera wine was produced in 1775 in Spain. In 2001, the bottle was taken from the collection and auctioned in London for $ 43, 500.
6. French Wine
Like the Sherry de la Frontera, Chateau Lafite Rothschild wine reached a very high auction price and sold for $ 156, 000 in 1985. The bottle is original from 1787 and is believed to have belonged to US President Thomas Jefferson.
7. Champagne
The oldest champagne in the world was found in 2010 among the wreckage of a ship in the waters of the Aalanda Islands between Sweden and Finland. At least three of the recovered bottles were from the Veuve Cliquot winery and possibly dated between 1782 and 1788. And the good news is that they were still in good condition to be consumed.
8. Rum
This is believed to be the oldest bottle of rum in the world. In what remains of the label, it can be deduced that the Vieux Rhum Anglais was produced by Caves du Grand Hotel Tirollier in 1830.
9. Whiskey
This small bottle of Glenavon Special Liqueur whiskey is estimated to be the oldest in the world. Analysis of the packaging proved that the drink dates from the mid-1850s. The bottle belonged to a Scottish family and was auctioned in 2006 and sold for $ 29, 000.
10. Gin and whiskey
This batch of Hannis distillery is made up of a gin carboy, two whiskey carboys and two more rye whiskey carboys, which was the company's specialty. The drink was distilled in 1863, placed in oak barrels and kept there for 50 years before being bottled.
11. Absinthe
Absinthe Edouard Pernod, produced in the Lunel region of France, is the oldest intact copy of the drink, produced in the 1870s.
12. English Whiskey
When these whiskey bottles were found, the state of the original label did not allow their identification. But thanks to the basement labels that read “Army and Navy Whiskey - mid-19th century” it was possible to identify its origin. They probably date from the 1870s or 1880s and belonged to the stock of the famous British Army and Navy store, founded in 1872 and known for providing all kinds of products to British Army and Navy officers.
13. Coke
In addition to alcoholic beverages, a bottle of Coca-Cola is also on the world's oldest beverage list. This copy was never opened and it is estimated that the drink was produced between 1902 and 1905.
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