World's oldest wine discovered in southern Spain

The world’s oldest wine has been discovered at a Roman burial site in Carmona, Spain.

The world’s oldest wine has been discovered at a Roman burial site in Spain, and one thing is clear — it definitely had body. 

For roughly 2,000 years, the wine has been held in a glass funeral urn along with the cremated ashes of a man and a gold ring inside an ancient mausoleum in Carmona, a small town in the southern region of Andalusia, according to new analysis.

The research was carried out by a team led by scientists from the University of Córdoba and published this week in the Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports.

The urn was recovered in 2019 after a family found a sunken tomb while they were having work done to their home. Juan Manuel Román / Journal of Archaeological Science“At first we were very surprised that liquid was preserved in one of the funerary urns,” Juan Manuel Román, one of the report’s authors, said in a news release from the university.  

The tomb’s “conservation conditions were extraordinary; fully intact and well-sealed,” he said, adding that this had “allowed the wine to maintain its natural state” centuries later.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/worlds-oldest-wine-discovered-southern-spain-rcna157894

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