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Five years ago, a hundred were discovered at the bottom of the Baltic Sea sixty-eight bottles of champagne whose age is current the moment is one hundred seventy five years. Sparkling wine turned there as a result of a shipwreck of an unknown ship. The other day a group German and French researchers completed a thorough analysis vintage champagne.
The first to try an alcoholic drink was divers who recovered find on the surface. Divers uncorked one of the bottles and drank her, making sure that they found champagne at the bottom of the sea. Subsequently, they handed over the bottles to specialists for laboratory research. Germans and French tested for five years the taste and chemical qualities of the wine, as a result, made sure that old champagne in many ways is similar to what we drink Today.
Champagne of the world famous French brand “Widow Clicquot” refers to dry and semi-dry wines, which became for experts a surprise since it was previously thought that in the nineteenth century, only extremely sweet varieties were popular sparkling wine.
The presence in the drink of an impressive amount of metal ions and carboxylic acids suggests that champagne was made from small berries using wooden barrels for primary fermentation. In addition, in the wine found grape syrup, which, judging by everything was added instead of beet sugar used for sweetening champagne today. Interesting that the winemaker Barba Nicole Ponsardin, the same widow of Clicquot, at one time strongly opposed the addition of sweeteners to wine, therefore, modern experts, as it seems, managed to identify it dishonesty in this matter.
The drink was perfectly preserved, which, according to experts, contributed to the cleanliness of manufacturers, as well as low temperature and lack of light at the bottom of the sea. Nonetheless, a hundred and fifty five year old sparkling wine you hardly like because for such a long time period the whole carbon dioxide went through the cork, and champagne completely lost bubbles, which, in fact, are its main attribute.
