Emily Chan
The chemical compounds matched, confirming that the liquid was wine. The researchers determined it was wine made from white grapes because of the lack of syringic acid, a byproduct of red wine.
Previously, the oldest wine in the world was in a bottle from another Roman tomb near Speyer, Germany. It was uncovered in 1867.
The wine had been produced sometime around 325 C.E. and was buried with the dead to make sure they would not be thirsty in the afterlife.
The Carmona wine is actually safe to drink. One of the researchers decided to sample the wine and reported that it had a salty flavor.
