2000-Year-Old White Wine Excavated in Spain

Hyderabad: In a recent archaeological discovery, a 2000-year-old glass funeral urn filled with preserved white wine has been excavated in a Roman tomb in Carmona, Spain. The beverage now has been given the title of "Oldest wine ever discovered," which surpassed the various records held by the Speyer wine bottle from 1867, which dated back to the fourth century AD. The research team at the University of Cordoba's Central Research Support Service, ran a series of chemical analyses in order to confirm whether the reddish liquid is a wine or any degraded substance. By using advanced methods that could distinguish these substances in extremely small amounts, the team discovered seven distinct polyphenols that are also found in wines from Sanlºcar, Jerez, and Montilla-Moriles.