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Mother’s Day: The private bakery of my mother’s kitchen
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FEATURED POST: ‘ 170 YEAR-OLD CHAMPAGNE UNEARTHED AT BOTTOM OF SEA ‘

#AceFoodNews – May.08: The term “vintage” may now have a whole new meaning for wine lovers—a treasure trove of 170-year-old champagne has been unearthed from the bottom of the sea.

In 2010, a group of divers in the Baltic Sea happened upon the remains of a sunken trade schooner just off the coast of Finland.

Scattered amongst the wreckage 160 feet below the surface, they discovered a treasure sent from Dionysus himself—168 bottles of French bubbly that had aged in near perfect conditions for decades.

Although the local government ultimately claimed the bottles, a team of scientists led by Philippe Jeandet, a professor of food biochemistry at the University of Reims, was able to obtain a small sample of the preserved beverage for testing—and tasting.

Their chemical and sensory analysis, published today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, provides a unique lens into the past, offering information about conventional wine-making practices in the 19th century as well as the likely destination of the lost trade ship.