A number of rare bottles of champagne were found in a shipwreck about 170 years ago, is not only one bottle alone but there are more than 100 bottles.
Liquor was finally tested by scientists in the laboratory in order to uncover clues about the wine-making methods in the past. Finally the scientists found a very high sugar content exceeding even the content of today's modern wine.
A total of 168 bottles were found on the seabed of the Baltic in July 2010. Some of them have been preserved as well when stored in a chunk of the shipwreck. In an auction in 2011, some of which sold for tens of thousands of dollars per piece.
A recent study published in the journal PNAS on Wednesday (22/4) today reported on clams and sensory analysis of historic fluid. The study led by Professor Philippe Jeandet of the University of Reims Champagne-Ardenne, France. To the BBC, he was admitted to sip champagne 0.1 ml of ancient, as part of a test involving experts and wine makers in the Veuve Cliquot.
From the little liquid, the professor sip tobacco aroma and intense skin. According to the researchers, it can last 2 to 3 hours. Meanwhile, Andrew Waterhouse, an expert from the University of California Davis argues, this study is very interesting. Especially about the sugar content in it.
Professor Waterhouse said traces of arsenic may indicate the use of these substances for controlling pests in the vineyard at that time. Not only arsenic, in the champagne was also found elements of lead and iron. The metallic element may be derived from wine casks, before bottled drinks.
(Source: Various Sources)
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