I just found 10 bottles of 50 year old wine under my house. Labels are deteriorated but i found the original. I cant find out any info on it. Looks like some are stuffed and some good. Were stored standing up i think.
by Plane-Bake2167
In Wine Porn
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Only one way to figure out if it’s good….drink it!
My guess by the fill line and storage conditions, will be very not tasty.
Cool piece of wine history, digging out Australian Hermitage. I doubt they’ll be good, but sometimes these old Hermitages can be spectacular. I had a ‘76 Seppeltsfield Show Reserve recently that was still super interesting, if a bit past it.
Mount Lofty isn’t a particularly great region for making wine, but Wynn’s have always been a reputable producer. There are non-zero odds that it’s a surprisingly drinkable wine.
Edit: on further investigation, it appears Modbury Estate was in present day Wynn Vale (named for S. Wynn). I can’t speak to the terroir of the region, but it’s relatively close to the original Penfold’s Magill Estate. This is actually a super interesting piece of SA wine history.
How does it taste?
Ooh, I bet it’s hideously bad! I’m so jealous you get to taste it!
Awesome! Pop and let us know!