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Uncorking a 150-year-old bottle of wine

An intact bottle of wine recovered four years ago from the wreck of a Civil War blockade runner that sank off the coast of Bermuda in 1864 was uncorked and sipped last week during a food festival in Charleston, South Carolina.

How the wine tastes, and the story of its origin, was revealed at a Charleston Wine + Food event titled 鈥淔rom Deep Below: A Wine Event 150 Years in the Making.鈥

About 50 people bought tickets to hear firsthand what is inside one of the bottles and watch as a panel of wine experts taste it, organizers said.

鈥淚t鈥檚 a surprise,鈥 Bermuda Tourism Authority spokesman Campbell Levy said before the tasting. 鈥淲e compare it to a baby. You don鈥檛 know whether it鈥檚 going to be a hideous baby or a beautiful baby.鈥

The wine is one of five sealed bottles recovered by marine archeologists from the Mary-Celestia, an iron-hulled sidewheel steamship that sank under mysterious circumstances during the US Civil War.

The boat was leaving Bermuda with supplies for the Confederate states when it struck a reef and sank in six minutes, said Philippe Rouja, a cultural anthropologist and custodian of historic shipwrecks for the Bermudan government.


 

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