Show old wines some time ago a bottle of 0 ancient wine was found during the demolition of an old house at ginsbury finsbury Fins bury england it appears that this ancient bottle is eclipsed by the treasures of france some ot of the cellars in paris contain bottles ot of sauterne at least two centuries old this is a very respectable age but it Is nothing compared with a certain ot of 1652 or a Stein wein of 1540 or a jewish passover wine ot of five centuries and a half still in the museum at reims there is a tar far older wine or rather a bottle containing something which was once wine it Is said to date four centuries before our era this tradition says was found la in a tomb of the gallo roman period berthelot the celebrated chemist has left on record that he once analyzed a bottle of wine made la in the neighborhood of rome home about neros time in this case the analyst had bad only a dry residuum to work upon |