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Contemporary historians have been debating for a few years now if they should open the Speyer wine bottle, which is believed to be the world’s oldest bottle of wine. The Historical Museum of the Palatinate (Pfalz) in Germany has been home to the legendary 1,650-year-old bottle that is sealed with wax and contains a white liquid. The Speyer wine bottle. (Immanuel Giel/ CC BY SA 3.0 ) Debate Whether the Speyer Bottle Should be Opened or Not It’s no secret that the older a bottle of wine is, the better its contents will taste. In this case, however, the Speyer Bottle is so old that many experts doubt if its wine is drinkable. Widely considered as the oldest known liquid