Can you drink expensive old wine?!
Can you drink expensive old wine?
The emost expensive bottle of wine 1787 Chateau Lafitte sold at auction for ￡105000. Would you be able to drink it?
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they say that wine gets more taste with age however that much age i would guess that it is not drinkable anymore because after all it is 220 years old.
Are you serious? Of course not! Besides, even if I had the money I wouldn't waste it like that.
Eugh no :(
I bet it would taste like old mans pants now!!
I'd certainly have a wee quaff if someone else was buying!
I wouldn't be able to afford it!
But drinking it would be easy:
1 - open the bottle
2 - pour yourself a glass
3 - make sure it hasn't turned to vinegar
4 - drink wine
tada! easy as pie
I think the upper limit of wine's ability to age from this Bordeaux region (Paulliac) would be somewhere in the neighborhood of 65 years.
No
No one would dare.
It is more than likely vinegar.
220 years old and how many plagues and disasters and www's.
No way it it has been in a pristine environment.
No way that it is any thing less than vinegar or worse.
No, despite the fact that it's the most collectable bottle on the planet, it's long past it's drinking window now!
Wine is a living, breathing thing which we consume somewhere on it's journey from grape juice to vinegar and how long it will last will all depend on what it is, where it's from and how it was made.