2024 Author: Jasmine Walkman | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 08:29
A bottle of wine that had lain on the ocean floor for more than fifteen decades was opened for tasting in the American city of Charleston, South Carolina. However, its content was exactly what the dozens of tasters and connoisseurs who arrived on the occasion expected. It turned out that the bottle had a fragrant bouquet of the smell of sulfur and the taste of salt water, mixed with a slight hint of gasoline, the English newspaper Telegraph reported.
The bottle in question was found among the wreckage of the steamer Mary Celestia, which sank near Bermuda during the US Civil War. The shipwreck occurred in the distant 1864.
The bottle was inaugurated at a festival in Charleston, the capital of West Virginia, where an audience of 50 people, each associated with winemaking, tasters and experts, had gathered.
I've tried shipwreck wines before, said Paul Roberts, the event's chief sommelier, quoted by Reuters. "They may be amazing, but this bottle was different." There was a cloudy yellow liquid in it, which turned out to be mostly salt water. However, chemical analysis of the wine showed that it still contained 37 percent alcohol, he added.
A total of five sealed bottles were found among the remains of Mary Celestia. The find was discovered by two divers in 2011. The wine was found in the locker room located at the bow of the ship.
The steamer Mary Celestia sank under mysterious circumstances after leaving Bermuda. In 1864, a blockade was imposed on the Southeast Coast of the United States by the Confederacy. The huge steamer, powered by two metal wheels, sank just six minutes after sailing, after hitting an underwater reef. According to some theories, however, the ship was deliberately sunk.
Among the other items on the steamer, divers found women's shoes, hair brushes and sealed perfume bottles.
This year marks the 150th anniversary of the US victory over the Confederacy, ending the US Civil War. Whether other sommelier will be hired to open the remaining bottles found on the ship is still unclear, the Telegraph added.
Recommended:
They Opened A Channel For Poaching Fish
The Executive Agency for Fisheries and Aquaculture has opened a poaching network for the supply of fish at a commercial site in Shumen. The fish found was seized by illegal traders. Experts from the executive agency caught the poachers over the weekend, and the fish, which was distributed in the trade network, was caught in the Kamchia dam.
Maturation Of Wine And How Wine Ages
The wine e of these products, which over time acquire better qualities. What is the reason for the wine to taste better when stored? Wine is one of the oldest products obtained by man after a process of processing another product, and has existed for centuries.
The Cider - A Bottle Of Pleasure Between Light Beer And Fruit Wine
The cider, or in other words, the cider, is always around, but how many of us remember to order a bottle of it in the company of good food in the restaurant? Hardly much, although it can be an invaluable element of a good lunch or dinner. That is why it is time to re-evaluate cider - the affordable and unsuspectingly interesting friend of fruit wines and light beer.
A Bottle Of Wine Per Week For A Longer Marriage
Are you interested in all the secret ingredients of a happy and long family life? Now we will reveal to you a tested, researched and proven useful - wine! No matter how bad things are said in the media and written in the press, in the end, alcohol is not always scary, poisonous and addictive.
Fantastic! They Opened The First Nutella Restaurant In The World
Great news for Nutella liquid chocolate lovers. At the end of May it will be the first restaurant of its kind dedicated to the sweet temptation. The restaurant will be located in Chicago, USA and will offer chocolate dessert lovers sweet temptations for body and soul.
