Posted on 07/13/2017 8:29:26 PM PDT by ameribbean expat
Liberty Hall Museum—which is located on the campus of Kean University, one of New Jersey's largest state schools—has been going through an extensive renovation with the goal of allowing their visitors to walk through every era of American history. Recently, the museum took one massive leap toward that objective in the most unexpected of ways. It was announced that the museum discovered several cases of Madeira wine from 1796 that had been shipped from Portugal for the celebration of John Adams's presidency.
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There have been port wines that were over 150 years old when sold. Lots of private wine cellars around Europe, often very old casks and bottles are discovered in areas that weren’t hit hard during WWII. Spain seems to be a big source of the oldest such examples - that is also where the surviving bottles of “pre-ban” absinthe were found. A well-stored Madiera could indeed be suitable to drink, 200-odd years after it went in the cask.
Her unused confetti is already an art project. https://news.artnet.com/art-world/bunny-burson-confetti-hillary-clinton-1015193
Maybe in 150 years they will find her missing emails and turn that into an art project.
THX. Reminds me of the discussions we had here, of cork v synthetic cork, a long, long time ago.
Nice!!
Nice!
If you don't you have to decant very carefully; sediment.
Read about this. Thought it was a great find. I wonder if they’ll actually try to open any of it
WOW! That’s really cool!
I’m doing well when a Box-O-Wine makes it through a FULL WEEK at my house. ;)
*SMIRK*
The trade in Port wine was controlled by the British. After the separation with Britain true patriots would not drink Port. Instead, as an act of patriotism, they drank Madeira.
This was probably just as well. Juice from Pokeweed berries was sometimes used to dye the wine, and sometimes a rabbit was introduced to a cask of aging port to “smooth it out.”
Probably not. Perhaps even decent, depending upon how well it was made.
Vintage Madeira
"...And their long lives have made them absolutely unique in the world of wine. Most wines are dead and gone at age 100; and at best they are barely drinkable. But after a century, a Madeira can be just reaching its prime, possessing the depth of great age, but also the vigor of youth."
An amazing find though!
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