Wine from Civil War-era shipwreck Mary-Celestia uncorked at South Carolina

[garryson]

A bottle of wine recovered intact four years ago from the 1864 wreck of a Civil War blockade runner that sank off the coast of Bermuda has been uncorked and sipped by a panel of experts on Friday during a food festival in Charleston, South Carolina.



Read more: Wine from Civil War-era shipwreck Mary-Celestia uncorked at South Carolina food festival - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

 

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[Jason in Enid]

I don't know what else they expected. A cork is not a 100% barrier, especially to osmotic diffusion.

 

[stefen]

Just think that the wine could have been auctioned for hundreds, if not thousands of dollars, and never opened...

Now they have several bottled of gasoline flavored salt water thats worthless...

 

[TheHarleyMan2]

From the looks of it I don't know if I would even drink it!

 

[ARC]

Who would attempt to drink something that looked like that ?
Idiots. heh
Was idiotic to even open it to begin with.

 

[BigWaveDave]

I'd drink it... I will drink anything..... uh oh, ummm....do I have a problem?...nah

 

[whammy]

They probably had a few totties before they tried that stuff.

 

[Mach1Pilot]

They had to be nuts to try drinking it after seeing it!