Speyer wine bottle

The Speyer wine bottle

The Speyer wine bottle (or Römerwein[1]) is a sealed vessel, presumed to contain liquid wine, and so named because it was unearthed from a Roman tomb found near Speyer, Germany. It contained the world's oldest known liquid wine (dated to about AD 325), until 2024, when a 1st century AD urn within a Roman tomb - found in 2019 in the southern Spanish town of Carmona - was confirmed to still contain liquid wine.[2]

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  2. ^ "Oldest wine ever discovered in liquid form found in urn with Roman remains". The Guardian (online edition). 18 June 2024. Retrieved 19 June 2024.