Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 172, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 July 1913 — HOLD WINE 1,600 YEARS OLD [ARTICLE]

HOLD WINE 1,600 YEARS OLD

Famous Bottle in German Museum Was Taken From an Old Roman Tomb.

Berlin. —Wine of the “wonder-year,” 1911, the'higher grade qualities of which are just coming on the wholesale market, is attaining record prices at the auctions at Mayence, Treves and other centers in the Rhine and Moselle districts. Seven thousand marks ($1,725) for a cask of Niersteiner Karnzburg of the vintage of 1893 had for years occupied the top of the list in wine auction at once ran the prices, but the bidders at this year’s auction at once ran the prices for 1911 grades up to almost double this, the record figurb reached for a "fuder” (a cask of about six hundred quarts) of Piesporter from /he vineyard quarts) of Piesporter from the vineyard of Count von Kesselstadt, for which 14,010 marks ($3,500) was paid at the auction at Treves. This is a rate of almost $6 a bottle for two-year-old wine in the cask. The values of wine bring to mind the famous bottle in the historical museum of Speyer. This container is of antique shape and was found in a Roman sarcophagus unearthed in 1867, to which is attributed an age of one thousand six hundred years. The bottle contains a white wine, vovered on top with a resinous substance which was once olive oil, placed by the Romans tn. the necks of wine bottles as a means of excluding the air and preserving liquid. . Analysis proved the fluid to be wine, and other objects in the sarcophagus ■lmw that It dates from about 300 A