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Limits RegistryThe Speyer wine bottle, a sealed Roman glass vessel found in 1867 in the grave of a nobleman near Speyer, Germany, dates to between 325 and 359 CE and still contains liquid wine under a layer of olive oil. Roughly 1,650 years old, it has never been opened and is displayed at the Historical Museum of the Palatinate.
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The Speyer wine bottle, a sealed Roman glass vessel found in 1867 in the grave of a nobleman near Speyer, Germany, dates to between 325 and 359 CE and still contains liquid wine under a layer of olive oil. Roughly 1,650 years old, it has never been opened and is displayed at the Historical Museum of the Palatinate.
The greatest age of a surviving, still-sealed glass vessel known to contain wine.
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Limits Registry. LR-OLDEST-UNOPENED-WINE-BOTTLE. Oldest unopened bottle of wine. 2026.