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Have you ever wondered which is the oldest bottle of wine in the world?

The Speyer wine bottle (or Römerwein) 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 is considered the world's oldest known bottle of wine.

The Speyer wine bottle most likely holds wine, and was originally found in 1867, in what is now the Rhineland-Palatinate region of Germany near Speyer, one of the oldest settlements in the area. The artifact has since become known as "the world's oldest existing bottle of wine". The bottle has been dated between 325 and 350 AD and is the oldest known unopened bottle of wine in the world. Since its discovery, it has been exhibited at the Wine Museum section of the Historical Museum of the Palatinate in Speyer, always displayed in the same location within the museum.

The "Römerwein" is housed in the museum's Tower Room. It is a 1.5-litre (51 US fl oz) glass vessel with amphora-like "shoulders," yellow-green in color, with dolphin-shaped handles. 🍷

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The company Cramele Recaş represents one of the most important wineries in Romania, surely being the largest in the West of the country. With a long history (the first documentary attestation of the vineyards in Recaș dating back to 1447), starting in 1991, Cramele Recaș has been radically modernized as a result of the association between two vineyard engineers and a businessman in the international wine industry. Recaş wineries are today among the most complete wineries in the country, with a production focused primarily on quality at all levels of the range. They produce white, red and pink wines, awarded year after year with diplomas and medals at national and international competitions. Inside the Recaș Winemaking Complex there is a Tourist Cellar for groups organized with a capacity of serving over 100 people, where you can discover or rediscover all the types of wines that our company produces and bottles: they are the same wines that we export to more than 25 countries, including USA, Canada, Italy, France, Japan, Korea, Germany, Austria, UK, Sweden, Malaysia.

Join next Bacchus Tour there to see with your own eyes how history is written!