Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 100, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 April 1911 — Old Wines. [ARTICLE]

Old Wines.

Some time ago a bottle of ancient wine was found during the demolition of an old house at Finsbury, England. It appears that this ancient bottle is eclipsed by the treasure of France. Some of the cellars in Paris, we learn, contain bottles of Sauterne at least two centuries old. This is a very respectable age, but it is nothing compared with a certain Ribeauvllliers of 1662, or a Steinwein of 1640, or a Jewish Passover wine of five centuries and a half. Still in the museuip at Reims there is a far older wine, or rather a bottle containing something which was once wine. It is said to date four centuries before our era. This, tradition says, was found in a tomb of the Gallo-Roman period. Berthelot, the celebrated chemist, has left on record that he once analyzed a bottle of wine made in the neighborhood of Rome about Nero's time. In tbls case the analyst had only a dry residuum to work upon.